transient
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World Cup markets, is already seeing a 38% jump in average daily rates from transient travelers for the tournament period.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
The system is also only the second known long-period radio transient found to produce regular X-rays.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
"Many of the affected areas are mining towns with highly mobile and transient populations. This mobility increases risk as people move between communities and across borders," says Lang.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Authorities immediately located 45-year-old Patrick Keys, a known transient in the area, and arrested him without incident, Bundy said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Anything we do in this transient, secondary social way, compulsively and with all our energies but only for a brief period of our history, cannot be counted as social behavior in the biological sense.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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