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However fleetingly, Kafka and his unmoored translators found in literature a place of belonging that felt impossible to them in life.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

True to its Greek name meaning "unstable," it exists only fleetingly in nature.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

Ms Paice says she fleetingly imagined they had come for Churchill's childhood lock of hair, which the palace displays.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

It’s a phenomenon fleetingly rare among mammals, found only in some primates, bats, and elephant shrews.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2024

She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a blend of guilt and sadness.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie