transient

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Chief Executive Officer Anthony Capuano said solid leisure transient and cross-border travel supported international trends, while U.S. and Canada travel trends were hurt by the extended U.S. government shutdown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

“We view any rally as transient, recommending selling any Brent rally above $70 per barrel, as balances loosen further through the first half of 2026,” Martoccia wrote.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

“These memory bubbles are transient but impossible to time,” they said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 13, 2026

He claimed at the tribunal in August that he had suffered from anxiety and depression, while a union representative said he "had suffered from a recognised condition that day, known as transient global amnesia".

From BBC • Jan. 4, 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