transient

A 2012 randomized controlled trial sponsored by the federal government found that children assigned to Head Start showed transient improvements in language and literacy during preschool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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

In a city celebrated for artworks that have survived for centuries, this installation was very nearly too transient.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026

The system is also only the second known long-period radio transient found to produce regular X-rays.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

There was a sense of adventure in the constant moving, the transient life they led.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

Meanwhile, he said the abandoned lot next door remains unsecured and swamped with trash from transients who frequent the site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

By combining observations across different wavelengths, they hope to better understand how these signals are produced and whether similar mechanisms can explain the broader population of long-period radio transients.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

New findings show that the transient killer whales living along the West Coast between British Columbia and California are actually divided into two separate subpopulations known as inner and outer coast transients.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025

The area on the eastern side of downtown Los Angeles whose cheap residential hotels, bars, liquor stores and missions made it a magnet for transients becomes widely known as Skid Row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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