fleetingly

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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

Introduced at the Zurich Film Festival a couple of weekends ago, she appeared fleetingly in a two-minute satirical video.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 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

He thought fleetingly of trying to set something up with the D.A., but there again was the problem that people would be missed from lessons; most of them, after all, still had full schedules...

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling