transiently

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Some people, though, experience loneliness not just transiently but chronically.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

The researchers developed two different types of injectable molecules that they call "priming agents," which can transiently interfere with the body's ability to remove circulating tumor DNA from the bloodstream.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

When a human is bitten by an infected mosquito, the virus multiplies in the skin and lymph nodes and travels transiently through the blood.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 21, 2023

This is important, because rainfall and sewage overflow events transiently increase the number of bacteria in water and may not be picked up during routine monitoring.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2023

Sometimes there entered the house—though only transiently, departing within the hour they came—people of a then remarkable aspect to me.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman