transiently
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Some people, though, experience loneliness not just transiently but chronically.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
Epigenetic modifications do not change the information but transiently modifies the cell's ability to read some of its own genes and produce the associated proteins instead.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 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
Developmental biologists have long known that the off-center placement of the heart and other organs is linked to a group of cells called the left-right organizer, which transiently forms in an early embryo.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 22, 2021
With astonishing subtlety light is shown penetrating cloud, and illuminating—sometimes transiently, sometimes steadily—different portions of the ground, shining through leaves upon other leaves, and multiplying in an endless way the transparency of the picture.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
