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transient

[tran-shuhnt, -zhuhnt, -zee-uhnt] / ˈtræn ʃənt, -ʒənt, -zi ənt /


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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

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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