transitory
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"Pakistani leaders are conducting shuttle diplomacy throughout the Middle East. The question is whether it is transitory and merely the product of the US president's idiosyncratic preferences."
From BBC • May 7, 2026
He reached back to the 1970s, when a series of shocks that officials dismissed as transitory allowed inflation expectations to drift.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Instead, we are presented with a set of writing scenes that are provisional, improvised, transitory and, in many senses, unreproducible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
“For now, the trend is clearly negative, but it should be transitory, assuming the Iran conflict is resolved in weeks and not months,” said Louis Navellier of Navellier Calculated Investing.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
What did they ever think of us transitory ones?
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Vocabulary lists containing transitory
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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The Great Gatsby
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Power Prefix: trans-
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