more transient
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Your cells have elaborate machinery to fix mistakes in DNA, which must last a long time to be inherited, whereas RNA is effervescent and plays a more transient role in cellular life.
From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2022
Outside the house, exposure might be more transient, or depending on where you live or what you’re doing, you might be masked up.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2021
Instead, the Wrights find themselves reveling in more transient measures: the email from Denmark about musicians who want to be on the network; the odd run-in with a Ditty sticker on an unknown car.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020
It is more transient than most, with a homeownership rate below the national average.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2020
This limited world was peopled with certain familiar presences, mother and father, two brothers, the evasive but interesting cat, and by intermittent people of a livelier but more transient interest, customers and callers.
From First and Last Things by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
