flit

Conversations are built on disagreement; distractable brains flit from one thought to a barely related other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

Silverblatt spent his entire career at S&P, a rarity among restless Wall Street hustlers who often flit between companies to climb the corporate ladder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Today, bicycles and bright yellow three-wheeled "keke" taxis flit along paved streets or new highway flyovers direct traffic over packed roundabouts.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

Hargitay doesn’t flit between talking heads at warp speed to feed the viewer information, or overly rely on archival footage and old photos to make the film feel like a glorified Wikipedia deep dive.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

Then we sat in lawn chairs out by the garden and watched dragonflies flit over the tops of the marigolds.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

Ray’s camera flits, with arresting rhythm, between the players; Aparna flits her eyelids as she names Cleopatra during the first round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

A butterfly flits near his shoulder, to symbolize how, Yeo has stated, “the subject’s role in our public life has transformed.”

From Salon ● May 17, 2024

A rich community portrait unfolds as Pierrette prepares her clients’ orders and flits around town putting out fires.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Jackson exudes an aura that flits with a kaleidoscopic exuberance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Sadness flits across Cain's face, infuriating me further.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

In the low-lighted galleries, painted black, deep purple and green, Evans’s proliferating eyes flitted between predators and prey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Godwill Kukonki – Another player who has flitted between the under-18 and under-21 sides this season.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Tech firms around Asia sank, though broader markets flitted between gains and losses.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

At work, she flitted between paperwork, cooking, online orders, posting on social media, and making connections at farmer’s markets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

As they flitted across they glanced back and saw the great black shape upon the battlement; then they plunged down between high rock-walls in a cutting that fell steeply to join the Morgul-road.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Matt said the highlight of the experience would be the blue morpho butterfly from central America, "with iridescent blue wings, darting and flitting" around the space.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

These minute works are packed with detail: Their flickering candles, flitting moths and glowering skulls appear as if they’ve been excavated from some illuminated manuscript belonging to a long-vanished medieval sect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

He’s both movie-star hunky and action-star engrossing, flitting between these two deceptively binary ends without breaking a sweat.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

Rates flitting back below 6% isn’t out of the question this year.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

His gaze kept flitting to the shotgun The uniform he had on was all white with a cap to match In his hand was a wire holder for milk bottles.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck