transient
Example Sentences
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Moira was my touchstone as I struggled with the reality of an unusually transient life, having lived in 29 homes by the age of 46.
From Los Angeles Times
Constable’s oil sketches, most unintended for public consumption, could be just as large and daring, and were prized for their extraordinarily loose paint-handling, transient atmospheric effects and true-to-nature palettes, the fruit of his plein-air practice.
“Artists have since given me works, which has been very touching, but the situation has changed my attachment to things, now that I see how transient they can be.”
From Los Angeles Times
Phillip Nova adds that the move reflects not just transient fear, but a deeper repositioning of global asset allocation, they add.
According to the NHS, Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood is a condition that causes transient weakness of either, or both, sides of the body.
From BBC
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