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
We dressed for the day, then returned to bed for a couple hours of fitful sleep, ready to go when we needed to.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 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
So she was up and dressed when Tea Cake awoke from the fitful sleep that had come to him just before day.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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