Thesaurus / fleeting
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Now, though, due to the pandemic, even those of us in urban environments find ourselves with a precious and fleeting opportunity to hear the sounds that the other inhabitants of the planet are making.
HAS NATURE GOTTEN LOUDER DURING THE PANDEMIC?GREG NOONEOCTOBER 15, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEAccording to polling by Civiqs, for a fleeting moment early in the pandemic, there wasn’t such a big gap between Republicans and Democrats in terms of how they saw the economy.
SEPTEMBER’S JOBS REPORT IS A POLITICAL RORSCHACH TESTAMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX (AMELIA.THOMSON-DEVEAUX@ABC.COM)OCTOBER 2, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTTracking demand and looking at year over year search trends, with Google Ads data as source, remains an accurate way to understand what changed for good, and what is just a fleeting trend depending on the short-term pandemic impact.
HOW WOULD AN SEO AGENCY BE BUILT TODAY? PART 1: CONSUMERS AND TRENDSSPONSORED CONTENT: SEOMONITORSEPTEMBER 4, 2020SEARCH ENGINE LANDOur experience of The Fabulous has been reduced to fleeting sound-bites and awkward livestreams.
‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ OF BROKEN DREAMSDAVID EHRENSTEINAUGUST 20, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEThe fleeting existence of the quark pair above, like many virtual events, is represented by a Feynman diagram with a closed “loop.”
THE MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF PARTICLE COLLISIONS COMES INTO VIEWCHARLIE WOODAUGUST 20, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEBut the impression was so fleeting as to be indefinable, and soon I was busy getting everyone settled in the car.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSTrue, he offered her just what I did, and with it he gave those fleeting joys that wealth brings.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDLady Hartledon looked back on her fleeting triumph; a triumph at the time certainly, but a short one.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODWebber, the tall man with the tough face, watched the fleeting symbols and his face was stony.
THE STARS, MY BROTHERSEDMOND HAMILTONBut everything in this world is fleeting and transitory, and therefore it is not easy to arrive at truth.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDWORDS RELATED TO FLEETING
- PDQ
- accelerated
- active
- agile
- blue streak
- breakneck
- brisk
- chop-chop
- dashing
- double-time
- electric
- expeditious
- expeditive
- flashing
- fleet
- fleeting
- flying
- hairtrigger
- hasty
- hot
- hurried
- hypersonic
- in a jiffy
- in nothing flat
- lickety split
- like a bat out of hell
- like all get out
- like crazy
- like mad
- nimble
- on the double
- posthaste
- presto
- pronto
- quick
- racing
- rapid
- ready
- screamin'
- snap
- snappy
- speedball
- supersonic
- swift
- velocious
- winged
- brief
- cowboy
- disreputable
- dubious
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- here-today-gone-tomorrow
- impermanent
- irresponsible
- momentary
- not to be relied upon
- not to be trusted
- passing
- questionable
- shady
- shifty
- short-lived
- slimy
- slippery
- temporary
- treacherous
- trustless
- undependable
- unprofessional
- unreliable
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- PDQ
- abrupt
- agile
- brash
- breakneck
- brief
- brisk
- careless
- cursory
- eager
- expeditious
- fast
- fiery
- fleet
- fleeting
- foolhardy
- harefooted
- headlong
- heedless
- hurried
- ill-advised
- impatient
- impetuous
- impulsive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- madcap
- on the double
- passing
- perfunctory
- precipitate
- prompt
- pronto
- quick
- quickened
- quickie
- rapid
- rash
- reckless
- rushed
- short
- slambang
- slapdash
- snappy
- sudden
- superficial
- swift
- thoughtless
- urgent
- Lilliputian
- babyish
- bantam
- brief
- cramped
- diminutive
- dinky
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infant
- infinitesimal
- insufficient
- junior
- light
- limited
- meager
- microscopic
- mini
- miniature
- minute
- not big
- not large
- peanut
- petite
- scant
- short
- short-lived
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undersized
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
- ambiguous
- baffling
- cagey
- deceitful
- deceptive
- difficult to catch
- elusory
- equivocal
- evanescent
- fallacious
- fleeting
- fraudulent
- fugacious
- fugitive
- greasy
- illusory
- imponderable
- incomprehensible
- indefinable
- insubstantial
- intangible
- misleading
- occult
- phantom
- puzzling
- shifty
- shy
- slippery
- stonewalling
- subtle
- transient
- transitory
- tricky
- unspecific
- volatile
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