flitter
Example Sentences
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“If the market is going to flitter around that, that might be a buying opportunity,” as the Fed is loosening monetary policy at a time when the economy seems “pretty solid,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025
There are times in Nolan’s latest opus that flames fill the frame and visions of subatomic particles flitter across the screen — montages of Oppenheimer’s own churning visions.
From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2023
Listen hard enough, and the nearly sitcom-length middle can even feel short when the same big, bending sounds are crammed into little pockets of time that flitter away before you know it.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2021
The song of a wrentit — a cute little brown flitter — fits better with the message.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2020
Cousin Eunice would flutter and flitter, and before they knew it the Tillermans would be adopted.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.