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The contemporary costumes are unchanged as the actors flit between roles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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

Emmett’s team was up by one — Rosalie managed to flit around the bases after tagging up on one of Emmett’s long flies — when Edward caught the third out.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Tech conglomerate SoftBank—a proxy for the AI trade—Advantest and Kioxia, to name a few, have oscillated sharply as market sentiment flits between euphoria over the technology’s long-term promise and pessimism over monetization and sky-high valuations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The names alone suggest a level of parody, and, in the first episode, a send-up quality flits in and out of the proceedings, but the show chooses cynicism over satire every time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2025

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

The words trigger something in my mind, but it flits away.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Birmingham, Bolton and Norwich flitted between divisions for four successive seasons.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

Oil prices flitted between small gains and losses, with U.S. crude futures ending the day up less than 0.1% at $91.29 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In the months leading up to the U.S. and Israeli campaign, senior Arab officials say Araghchi flitted between openness, at times joining friendly dinners, and menacing by appearing to imply Iran might attack its neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

In the men's, Sato flitted around the rink with poise to maintain his lead from Friday's short programme, landing three quadruple jumps.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

I pulled myself up off the floor and the pixie flitted away.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Fireflies at dusk, flitting around outdoor gatherings as cousins trade jokes with a friendly, rough-and-tumble edge.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

Fittingly, Daniel Pemberton’s score has that same sense of free-ranging curiosity, flitting between genres at will.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

She leapt out of her tree and hit the ground running, flashes of green flitting along at her side.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older