transient
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The result is pure, rich excess — a fashion documentary unlike any other, that manages to capture the transient joy and whimsy of an era where fashion was allowed to be, dare I say, fun.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
However, margin pressures in the quarter are likely transient, and the company’s cost structure should normalize and result in improving profitability, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Decisionmakers—including the Supreme Court and even transient majorities—can get things wrong, until we set them right, or at least make them more perfect.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
I interviewed Christo in 2011, and he was eloquent about how his and his wife’s work alters perceptions of nature, and about the deliberately transient character of the art itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
He wore a rain hat and dark glasses and what appeared to be several jackets layered on top of one another, which made him look both fat and vaguely transient.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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Meanwhile, he said the abandoned lot next door remains unsecured and swamped with trash from transients who frequent the site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
These signals appear as very low frequency transients i.e. impulse like transition or settling signals recorded in horizontal ground motion, including both acceleration and tilt.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2026
Outer coast transients, numbering about 210 animals, were most often found within 20 kilometers of the continental shelf break, particularly near submarine canyons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025
The area on the eastern side of downtown Los Angeles whose cheap residential hotels, bars, liquor stores and missions made it a magnet for transients becomes widely known as Skid Row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
Permanent transients with no attachments and tired looking men with their families and dogs in flivvers.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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