transient

Promoters scraped out regional fiefdoms where transient performers would fight for a spell before jumping ship in search of better deals.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Yee Eun Nam’s projections inject into this transient world a welcome subtlety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Gareth Richards from UK Seal Alliance says "seals are very transient, and will basically go to where there is good fish stocks".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Decisionmakers—including the Supreme Court and even transient majorities—can get things wrong, until we set them right, or at least make them more perfect.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

While he’s trying to rebuild, he’s had to fend off transients who trespass onto his property on a regular basis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

When long-period radio transients were first discovered, many astronomers suspected they might be unusually slow-spinning neutron stars known as pulsars.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

At least some long-period radio transients appear to originate in binary star systems involving white dwarfs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

The team found that inner coast transients, estimated at roughly 350 individuals, typically stayed about six kilometers from shore in relatively shallow areas such as the Salish Sea.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025

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