more transient
Example Sentences
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However, the study said that the L.A. sample appeared to be no more transient than those studied in other cities.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025
The researchers wanted to know whether hepatocytes are long-lived, like neurons or the heart’s muscle cells, or whether they’re more transient.
From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2022
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
In the medicine of Nature a chronic and abiding disquietude or morbidness of temperament is often cured by some keen though more transient sorrow which violently changes the current of our thoughts and imaginations.
From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
