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have been flitting

  • present perfect progressive
    of flit.
    flit
    verb (used without object)
    to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along.

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Hence, the recent spate of “I quit” announcements that have been flitting across people’s news feeds.

From Washington Post Nov. 10, 2021

Rumors of Shibumi have been flitting around the Internet for years.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2016

Certain questions have been flitting through his mind: What are GMOs?

From Scientific American Sep. 9, 2013

Something very like that must have been flitting through his mind.

From Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper

I dare say these little creatures have been flitting about the balcony and these rooms, ever since we went away.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau