fleeting
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Synonyms & Antonyms for fleeting
Synonyms
brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory
Antonyms
ceaseless, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, lasting, long-lived, permanent, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending
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Some of Barnatan’s percussive highlighting seemed to bring Mozart into contemporary times, if only for fleeting moments. — Richard S. Ginell, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Hollywood Bowl’s Mozart marathon is thin on surprise. In the end, that’s just fine," 6 Sep. 2019 Built into this song sonically and lyrically are competing rushes of melancholy and euphoria, overtaking one another for fleeting moments. — Kat Bein, Billboard, "The Naked And Famous, RAC and Felix Cartal Remix Luna Shadows' 'Waves': Exclusive," 20 Aug. 2019 These attempts came off with varying degrees of success, and, when a viewer least expected it, a fleeting moment of true depth. — Washington Post, "‘Righteous Gemstones’ misses a golden opportunity to satirize evangelical piety," 16 Aug. 2019 Lydia's cruelty has always been in sharp contrast to those fleeting, surprising moments of empathy or tenderness toward the Handmaids. — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, "Ann Dowd Digs Deep to Understand Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale," 14 Aug. 2019 There’s more to it than just snapping the ball and that’s where those fleeting moments of frustration can pop up. — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, "Sometimes it gets heated but Tua Tagovailoa explained how on-field mishaps are resolved," 13 Aug. 2019 But if history is any indication, the interest in seismic safety will be fleeting. — Los Angeles Times, "Even after huge earthquakes, much of Southern California still unprepared for The Big One," 17 July 2019 While the Guthrie staging has some significant deficiencies, the tunes. the energy and some strong performances make a decent case to venture indoors during a fleeting Minnesota summer. — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, "Review: Guthrie Theater’s ‘Guys and Dolls’ occasionally fizzles when it should pop," 1 July 2019 Republicans and Democrats joined for a fleeting moment in celebrating the unanimous passage of a non-binding resolution condemning the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, "Congress tackles the anti-Israel boycott, but bipartisanship is fleeting," 23 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fleeting.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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