---

• v  move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
• v  disappear gradually
• s  lasting for a markedly brief time
  a fleeting glance

• On April 28, the Supreme Court upheld the FCC policy of fining "fleeting expletives" like the one used by U2 front man Bono during his acceptance speech at the 2003 Golden Globes .
• It is atmosphere used to create the most fleeting or lasting emotion, a mix of longing gazes, swirling cigarette smoke, double-printed slo-mo images and the Colony's most gorgeous .
• What is surprising is just how fleeting an interest Internet users have in losing weight.

• flit
• flutter
• fleet
• dart
• evanesce
• fade
• blow over
• pass off
• pass
• fugitive
• momentaneous
• momentary

News & Articles

---

• Evan Dietrich-Smith ready to prove his worth
  Any job in the NFL is fleeting, a fact Evan Dietrich-Smith knows more than anyone in the Packers locker room. He has been released by the team before. He’s worked out of a YMCA.
  June 12, 2013 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Burlington County plans to cut open space tax to keep levy stable
  MOUNT HOLLY — The proposed 2013 county budget reduces spending by $15 million, but due to another year of fleeting property values, the amount to be raised by taxes to support the operating budget is
  June 12, 2013 - Burlington County Times
• At Senate hearing, military health care gets scrutiny
  For a fleeting moment, at least, lawmakers seemed to be coming around to the idea that the Pentagon benefits system has its limits.
  June 11, 2013 - Stars and Stripes

Quotes

---

• Mohamed ElBaradei in Bloomberg
  This is a unique and fleeting opportunity to reverse course from confrontation to cooperation and should therefore not be missed,ElBaradei said in his final report to the UN General Assembly before leaving the Vienna-based International...
• Roy Williams in Forbes
  I think the momentum, it's sort of fleeting. You don't know when it's going, where it's going, when it's going to come back,Williams said.
• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  I know it's not easy,Obama told employees at an electric-car plant in Pomona, home of a giant and hurting economy. "There are days I'm sure when progress seems fleeting and days when it feels like you're making no progress at all. That's...