fitfulness

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Some of fusion’s fitfulness is innate to the design of doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 22, 2022

The laughs emerge with stingy fitfulness in “Night School,” and Hart’s overly familiar antics don’t account for many of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2018

I expected maybe an hour’s worth of sleep and a lot of fitfulness.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2014

"Flirting" also echoes the "twirling" of the leaf, suggesting a similar playfulness and fitfulness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2012

All day the wind—which till then had thrummed through the rigging and held the sails in their stiffened curves so steadily that the Spirito Santo kept a fairly even keel—had been falling on fitfulness.

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)