transience
Example Sentences
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These days, the transience of “Spiral Jetty” reads like an early warning of climate chaos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Most alarmingly, DRM accelerates the transience of our digital goods.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2023
“He’s looking at the world holistically. I feel like his practice is a way of creating a universal story of migration, immigration, transience, what is home and where is home.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
In it, time travel becomes a potent metaphor for the transience of even the most permanent relationship, of love, loss, absence and longing, of the fragility and complications of our connections.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2023
Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their wholehearted commitment to life.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing transience
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
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The Sound and the Fury
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