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

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

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

Creation of the organization and its seeding with $2 million in pocket change was a notable departure for the industry which, up to then, had only fleetingly and peripherally been involved in campaigns and elections.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

It’s a phenomenon fleetingly rare among mammals, found only in some primates, bats, and elephant shrews.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2024

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