fitful

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No other Victorian poet could have brought off such a fitful and obsessive work; no one else could have sustained such music and emotion for more than 100 pages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

As treatment progresses, if the once fitful sleeper finds they’re sleeping longer and more easily, they extend their time in bed to match their newfound sleep ability.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2025

A dry wind was already stirring when the sun rose over Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, fitful gusts whipping palm fronds seaward and making eucalyptus limbs creek and groan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025

It caps weeks of fitful indirect negotiations and sets the stage for a tense period that could determine the course of the war, already in its seventh week.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Clare gestured to the world around them, the prism of light deepening by the minute, the fitful winds blowing their fur in every direction.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman