fleetingly

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However fleetingly, Kafka and his unmoored translators found in literature a place of belonging that felt impossible to them in life.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

It’s a fleetingly private moment before they uncover their souls for the whole world.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

True to its Greek name meaning "unstable," it exists only fleetingly in nature.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

Ms Paice says she fleetingly imagined they had come for Churchill's childhood lock of hair, which the palace displays.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

It was the cryptic look, he recognized, that she’d aimed at him fleetingly on the second floor of the courthouse when he’d tried to speak to her before her husband’s trial.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson