transiently

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When human muscles are exercised, MYC is found to increase transiently in abundance over 24 hours.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Some people, though, experience loneliness not just transiently but chronically.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

This is important, because rainfall and sewage overflow events transiently increase the number of bacteria in water and may not be picked up during routine monitoring.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2023

Developmental biologists have long known that the off-center placement of the heart and other organs is linked to a group of cells called the left-right organizer, which transiently forms in an early embryo.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2021

Every article, every piece of verse, every essay, every entrefilet, is destined to pass, however swiftly, through the minds of some portion of the public, and to colour, however transiently, their thoughts.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis