transient
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Housing markets and commodity prices are concerns, but amount to transient factors to be managed.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
Cars with manually shifted transmissions are less efficient, with higher consumption and transient emissions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
“Artists have since given me works, which has been very touching, but the situation has changed my attachment to things, now that I see how transient they can be.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026
“These memory bubbles are transient but impossible to time,” they said.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 13, 2026
He warred against it, but his tongue was a transient orator who, in moments of madness or in the dazzling half-nelson of a father’s arm, assumed a life and career of its own.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing transient
The Declaration of Independence
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