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[fit-fuhl] / ˈfɪt fəl /


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My Broadway theatergoing had to be selective this year for logistical reasons, but these are the performers and productions that sustained me through the fitful season.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

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

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

His sense of smell returned, and whenever he woke from a fitful doze, he sniffed for Bristle and Runt to reassure himself that they were still alive.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker




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