temporary
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State officials familiar with the travel records said the two temporary attorneys general appointed during Paxton’s suspension did not take the trips listed on the state police travel logs.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
They are filled with temporary structures for soldiers to sleep, eat and work in and have communication towers nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Economist Pearce agreed but warned the release is only a temporary solution.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The US Treasury issued a temporary license Friday to enable Russian diesel to flow to global markets through April 2027.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Times Square had been barricaded off and converted into a temporary CDC—Centers for Disease Control—compound, complete with portable labs.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
All temporaries would be ineligible for welfare or unemployment benefits, but they could send their children to public schools.
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
Nevertheless, it did not, like most temporaries, attain its maximum brightness all at once.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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Essential Word Roots: Chron and Temp
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