fleeting
Example Sentences
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For a fleeting moment, I imagined the trees had the answers to all my troubles.
From Literature
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As the obstacles mount against Kornev, his paranoia grows, leading to fleeting moments of surrealism.
From Los Angeles Times
In the year 1979, smog marked the lives of two Southern California women — one fleetingly, one for her entire career.
From Los Angeles Times
October’s windfall also proved fleeting: In January, one of the Hyperliquid accounts lost more than $128 million on an ill-fated bet that ether would rise.
Middle Eastern intermediators have been racing for days to get talks going to end the war, but said the gaps between the parties remain enormous and that progress remains fleeting.
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