transient

In particular, radiation can cause "transient bit flips" that unexpectedly change information stored in computer memory, potentially disrupting software.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Promoters scraped out regional fiefdoms where transient performers would fight for a spell before jumping ship in search of better deals.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Gareth Richards from UK Seal Alliance says "seals are very transient, and will basically go to where there is good fish stocks".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Maccani, she said, had been a star prep football player and a college graduate — not a transient as he had been depicted in some early police accounts and news reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

"The newly discovered soft X-ray component provides a new probe, indicating that the fast X-ray transients are also electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave sources and may originate from compact object mergers," said Professor Troja.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

While he’s trying to rebuild, he’s had to fend off transients who trespass onto his property on a regular basis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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

Killer whales that frequent the West Coast fall into three recognized ecotypes: transients, residents and offshore.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025

Time was unorganized except for the communal work, field labor, gardening, woodcutting, maintenance, for which transients such as myself were called on by whatever group most needed a hand.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin