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Instead, participants were housed in wooden temporary units, on a cruise ship and in hotels.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

He said the strike had damaged a heating main, adding that there would be a temporary lack of hot water in the north-eastern Desnyanskyi district as a result.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The bank will face a temporary drag in the second half of 2026 as liabilities reprice faster than assets, but increased deposit competition remains the main bottom-up risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

And Bradley Saunders, North America economist at Capital Economics, said the lower figure was “not disastrous“, adding that a drop in government roles and temporary visa policy changes weighed on overall growth.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In 1964, we received great medical news—that the slower heartbeat, loss of calcium in bones, pooling of blood in the legs, and other effects of weightlessness seemed to be temporary.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Ford raised its offer to $21 per hour with profit sharing and said it would make temporaries full-time workers after 90 days of continuous service.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

Presumably, some of the best candidates are employed--and aren't looking.We call that the Accolo Theory of Relativity: We're all temporaries; it's just a matter of degrees.

From Inc ● Mar. 25, 2013

Many of the buildings are rundown and ratinfested; one-third of the teachers are "temporaries."

From Time Magazine Archive

As the month goes on, Chile's writers will meet their U.S. con temporaries for panel discussions of the Chilean novel, featuring Sometime Critic Arthur Schlesinger, and theater, featuring Director Jose Quintero.

From Time Magazine Archive

The greatest, however, that they could get up was, that I always paid the Wanyamuezi "temporaries" more than they got, though "permanents."

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke