transience
Example Sentences
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These days, the transience of “Spiral Jetty” reads like an early warning of climate chaos.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
Alice Springs — or Mparntwe, to use its Indigenous name, from the Arrernte people — is infamous for its transience.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024
Most alarmingly, DRM accelerates the transience of our digital goods.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2023
“He’s looking at the world holistically. I feel like his practice is a way of creating a universal story of migration, immigration, transience, what is home and where is home.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023
Although his American-born housemates were sometimes noisy, spoke little Korean, and never stayed around very long, he preferred their energetic transience to living alone.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
