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It is typically used to describe something that lasts for a very short time. Example: "The beauty of the sunset was fleeting, disappearing within moments."
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Fleeting
adjective
Passing quickly.
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Fleeting chances to make huge profits tempt banks to expand their trading operations too quickly.
But Simon Cowell made a fleeting appearance at the talent show's glitzy launch event in London on Thursday – and thanked the media for making him "loads of money".
Hodges's close encounter left her with severe bruising – and fleeting worldwide fame.
I think of happiness as something that's fleeting and heightened, not constant.
Enjoy your calories, your freshers flu, your fleeting LFs – and let this doddery 29-year-old know how it goes.
The Shed at the National Theatre proved to be one such joyful fleeting visitor to the South Bank last summer, looking as if Lasdun's concrete fly-tower had leapt down and daubed itself with red face-paint to join the riverside fun.
There was fleeting hope in 1997, when Labour turfed out Ashington's Tory tormentors.
There were brief, fleeting signs of something resembling that here but before the new manager could even warm his seat in the dugout, the visitors were behind and the setback was self-inflicted.
Throughout his career, Damien Hirst has used butterflies (including live ones hatching in a gallery) to make statements about the fleeting nature of life.
And then, in a brief moment, Thatcher reached up to re-position a coil of hair and Jane pounced, capturing the fleeting doubt that lingered around the corners of the eyes.
Their Look Back In Anger adaptation was a flop but Saltzman and Woodfall caught the fleeting zeitgeist – and hit paydirt – with Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, making a star of Albert Finney.
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