transitory
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Inflation began rising sharply during the pandemic in 2021, which most policymakers and forecasters thought at first would be transitory.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
"Pakistani leaders are conducting shuttle diplomacy throughout the Middle East. The question is whether it is transitory and merely the product of the US president's idiosyncratic preferences."
From BBC • May 7, 2026
In 2021, as price growth began accelerating in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, Powell termed the increase transitory, a product of supply-chain bottlenecks and other post-Covid distortions that it assumed would resolve.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Yet what Fed officials don’t want is to “make the transitory mistake again,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
But in that transitory moment when at last the pearl was about to be handed to him, like Orpheus or Lot’s wife, he had to look back to find Vera.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
Vocabulary lists containing transitory
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The Great Gatsby
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Power Prefix: trans-
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