temporary

With the holding midfielder given the license to drop to form a temporary back three, United have the option to overload teams that press with two strikers.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The AlloESO-T cells slowed tumor growth and delayed the cancer's return, while the conventionally engineered comparison cells provided only temporary control.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Extreme heat can cause electrical equipment to fail, leading to temporary, unplanned outages, as took place in San Diego this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Economists are often in the habit of “looking through” inflation increases that come as a result of temporary shocks, such as rising gasoline prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

For a few days, she was replaced with a temporary commander.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Ford raised its offer to $21 per hour with profit sharing and said it would make temporaries full-time workers after 90 days of continuous service.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

Presumably, some of the best candidates are employed--and aren't looking.We call that the Accolo Theory of Relativity: We're all temporaries; it's just a matter of degrees.

From Inc ● Mar. 25, 2013

As the month goes on, Chile's writers will meet their U.S. con temporaries for panel discussions of the Chilean novel, featuring Sometime Critic Arthur Schlesinger, and theater, featuring Director Jose Quintero.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most temporaries and junior professors, however, are subservient to administrators and senior faculty in their own departments and feel wary of espousing anything too controversial.

From Time Magazine Archive

The greatest, however, that they could get up was, that I always paid the Wanyamuezi "temporaries" more than they got, though "permanents."

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke