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fleetingly

adverb as in briefly

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Still, it’s hard to deny that Reebok has been flailing for too long, fleeting improvements in 2019 aside.

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She hopes she’ll never have to steal again, though she says her sense of security is fleeting.

So now, in the fleeting space between comfortable and crazy, he is in this happy place, alone on his coming-of-age court with Veljko Perovic, his personal coach since he was 12, signing out by sinking buckets.

It can be as fleeting as the first bite of a crisp apple or more substantial, such as the feeling of awe at a valley awash in golden foliage.

Maybe she had the look of someone who was trying to work something out, something at once vast and fleeting, which could never be approached head-on but only anecdotally.

For the overwhelming majority of people in this country, the likelihood of contracting it is fleetingly small.

These are worlds and characters unto their own—strange and sexually charged mysteries caught fleetingly on camera.

UZBEKY-BEKY-BEKY-BEKY-STAN In 2011 Herman Cain was fleetingly the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

Mike saw the figure—dimly, fleetingly, obscured most of the time by the driving whiteness.

A darker, livid hue passed fleetingly over the pallid body of the octopus.

The Beaker trader Rossa rubbed sweating palms on his kilt and thought fleetingly of forest ghosts and other mysteries.

His mouth, I thought fleetingly, must hurt like hell when he drew it up into the kind of grin he was grinning now.

It had never before in her life, not even fleetingly, not once, occurred to her that she might ever have children.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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