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fleetness

  • a word derived from fleet.

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And there is no question that Red Bull under Horner had a fleetness of foot and improvisational aggression that quite often left their rivals trailing.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2025

All cities develop budgets and set staffing levels while possessing better local knowledge than the Legislature has - and, we dare say, more fleetness of foot.

From Washington Times Feb. 24, 2020

At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018.

From Washington Post Nov. 18, 2019

Mr. Okazaki rarely plays chords; his linear style has a fleetness reminiscent of Pat Martino and a rough, chunky picking style not unlike that of Grant Green.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2018

Of all the animals we have seen, the antelope possesses the most wonderful fleetness.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas