more transient
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It also requires policymakers not to lose sight of the overall trend toward thinner and more transient snowpack, even after a few good years in a row.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
Your cells have elaborate machinery to fix mistakes in DNA, which must last a long time to be inherited, whereas RNA is effervescent and plays a more transient role in cellular life.
From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2022
Outside the house, exposure might be more transient, or depending on where you live or what you’re doing, you might be masked up.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2021
Under the best of circumstances, renters are among the hardest people to count because they tend to be more transient and are more likely to live below the poverty line.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2021
This limited world was peopled with certain familiar presences, mother and father, two brothers, the evasive but interesting cat, and by intermittent people of a livelier but more transient interest, customers and callers.
From First and Last Things by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)