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But also so often, over and over and over again, the answer to someone who is darting around looking for something and feeling unfocused and unsatisfied.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022

His 8-year-old Yorkie, Mozart, is darting around the singers’ feet, barking, to Smallwood’s chagrin.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2015

Now Lin is darting in and out of the lane like a young Steve Nash, flinging perfectly timed passes to Tyson Chandler and Steve Novak and making a lineup of misfits look cohesive.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2012

Roger Moore is darting through a busy bazaar, over and around peanut vendors, bicycles, carts, dogs and cows to escape his nemesis, the decadent Kamal, played by Louis Jourdan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fly says, and before I’ve responded, Fly has already sputtered out from inside me and is darting off ahead.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga