transient
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Modern technology has mostly worked to mitigate information asymmetries, but financial markets now operate at speeds that make transient information asymmetries unavoidable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The system is also only the second known long-period radio transient found to produce regular X-rays.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
Airbnb has collected and paid the city more than $370 million in transient occupancy taxes over the last decade, a company spokesperson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Housing markets and commodity prices are concerns, but amount to transient factors to be managed.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
Some residents can trace their families back generations; others are transient, moving every time they get a new job.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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These signals appear as very low frequency transients i.e. impulse like transition or settling signals recorded in horizontal ground motion, including both acceleration and tilt.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2026
The area on the eastern side of downtown Los Angeles whose cheap residential hotels, bars, liquor stores and missions made it a magnet for transients becomes widely known as Skid Row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
His mother, known as Miss Lillian, had more liberal views — she was known for her charity work and for taking in transients and treating Black residents with kindness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
Astronomers have detected similar pairs of objects, like this one discovered in 2016, but had not previously linked them to long period radio transients.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
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
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