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fleetingly
adverb as in briefly
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For the overwhelming majority of people in this country, the likelihood of contracting it is fleetingly small.
These are worlds and characters unto their own—strange and sexually charged mysteries caught fleetingly on camera.
UZBEKY-BEKY-BEKY-BEKY-STAN In 2011 Herman Cain was fleetingly the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
Mike saw the figure—dimly, fleetingly, obscured most of the time by the driving whiteness.
A darker, livid hue passed fleetingly over the pallid body of the octopus.
The Beaker trader Rossa rubbed sweating palms on his kilt and thought fleetingly of forest ghosts and other mysteries.
His mouth, I thought fleetingly, must hurt like hell when he drew it up into the kind of grin he was grinning now.
It had never before in her life, not even fleetingly, not once, occurred to her that she might ever have children.
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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fleetingly, such as: momentarily, quickly, temporarily, for a little while, hastily, and in passing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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