transient
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"Many of the affected areas are mining towns with highly mobile and transient populations. This mobility increases risk as people move between communities and across borders," says Lang.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
It looks like these are transient, nonstructural issues that should improve over the next few quarters.
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
The mission made significant discoveries, including the first data that show the existence of a transient third radiation belt, which can form during times of intense solar activity, Nasa said.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
The presumption that Dubai is a transient mirage, a Hollywood set built on sand that would unravel once the going gets tough, was no doubt shared in Tehran.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
All of that immense mass of flesh and bone and consciousness will disappear by absorption into the earth, without recognition by the transient survivors.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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