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  • present participle of flit.

flitting

ADJECTIVE
transitory
Synonyms


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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

The volume, produced in collaboration with the artist’s daughter Paloma, takes inspiration from the 1932 show, pairing objects in a manner that leaps between decades, styles and media to capture the artist’s flitting energies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

At a stoplight, my gaze will magnetically travel north to the Santa Monica Mountains blanketed in a golden charred brown, and I travel back to hiking those trails, surrounded by sage, lavender and flitting bluebirds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2025

She was keeping herself busy, flitting from class to club.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan




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