fleetness

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Sinner's relentlessly clean ball-striking from the back of the court, plus his fleetness of foot when his opponent tried to lure him forward, began to frustrate Alcaraz in the fourth set.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

All cities develop budgets and set staffing levels while possessing better local knowledge than the Legislature has - and, we dare say, more fleetness of foot.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020

At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2019

After spirited home wins over the Islanders and San Jose and a narrow loss at St. Louis, Vigneault is heartened by the across-the-board fleetness of his four forward lines and his younger defensive corps.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016

Bates bunted, and aided by his fleetness of foot, beat the ball to first.

From Dick Randall The Young Athlete by Clark, Ellery H.