temp
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Waldorf had spelled out the catch-22 in her journal that morning: “If I need a blood transfusion and it stabilizes my condition, they cannot induce. If my temp continues to spike then they can induce.”
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Just like her mother, Kelly developed a habit of picking up side hustles to complement her music gigs, including teaching, nannying and even working for a temp agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Anthony Norman, 25, the new season’s out-of-the-loop hero, has been hired for what he believes is a temp job at the small, family owned Rockin’ Grandma’s Hot Sauce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
"Whether that's putting in some sort of temporary structure or putting a temp track across the field alongside the landslide."
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Carlos: Curses—my parents have the temp control locked somehow.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Wednesday saw record-breaking, triple-digit temps in several parts of Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Once it’s connected to Wi-Fi, you can adjust temperatures from your phone, while the meat probe tracks internal food temps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Laissez les bons temps rouler” is as relevant to younger investors as Warren Buffett’s advice to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful has been to older generations.
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
Denver has seen temps in the 60s this week.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
“Says the girl sitting outside in subglacial temps while the vampires are out looking for a snack with sprinkles.”
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
One reason the stock market has performed so much better in recent years is that investors weren’t being temped by yields in the bond market, which have been lousy.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
Schneider had temped all of these great songs into the picture, but hadn’t licensed any of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2019
DiGregorio took the bag and headed for FultonFishMarket.com’s receiving station, where the fish would be scanned, weighed, temped, assigned a bar code, and Cryovac-sealed.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2019
Ron: I temped for a bunch of years, that was my thing, that was my day job before doing “Office Space.”
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2019
She asked that I remind her to bring along a young blonde who temped at the office to be in the throng the next day.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
I was temping, barely surviving — I’d spend hours on one drip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill Tuesday after agreeing to changes including prohibiting the sale of chilled beer or wine that might be more temping to drink on the way home.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 28, 2020
So, Felix, temping as it may be — resist the urge to sulk.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
A 38-year-old self-described “law-school dropout,” she is temping at a nonprofit, identifies as an anarcho-communist, and is a proud member of Democratic Socialists of America.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2018
She’s spent the past summer temping, working for two months in the business office of an expensive midtown hotel.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
