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as in temporary
intended to last, continue, or serve for a limited time
built an impermanent structure to serve for the archaeologists' living quarters during the dig
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as in flash
lasting only for a short time
a summer romance that was an impermanent fancy, quickly forgotten
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Recent Examples of impermanent
By integrating the imperfect and impermanent approach known as wabi-sabi, designer Divya Panwar gave this 732-square-foot apartment in Pune, India, a sensual touch.
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Anna-Lena Reith, Architectural Digest, 13 Oct. 2024
Prior to colonization in 1919, Hutus and Tutsi were impermanent economic class categories, likely determined by the number of cattle individuals owned.
—Anneliese M. Schenk-Day, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
For 20 years, Sinologists have been rightly pointing out the strengths that have helped China avoid pitfalls common to comparable economies and polities, but the pitfalls are still real while the strengths are impermanent.
—Andrew Gilholm, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2017
Most kids who receive gender-affirming care are treated with impermanent courses of action such as speech therapy, puberty blockers or hormone treatments.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 July 2024
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Anna-Lena Reith, Architectural Digest, 13 Oct. 2024
Prior to colonization in 1919, Hutus and Tutsi were impermanent economic class categories, likely determined by the number of cattle individuals owned.
—Anneliese M. Schenk-Day, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
For 20 years, Sinologists have been rightly pointing out the strengths that have helped China avoid pitfalls common to comparable economies and polities, but the pitfalls are still real while the strengths are impermanent.
—Andrew Gilholm, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2017
Most kids who receive gender-affirming care are treated with impermanent courses of action such as speech therapy, puberty blockers or hormone treatments.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impermanent
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In an effort to sell more tickets, the NFL approved the addition of 13,000 temporary seats in the end zones, but approximately 1,250 were deemed unsafe by inspectors.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2025
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The production designer spent a lot of time thinking about the structures that would become the MDR employees’ temporary homes.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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The German figures come a day before the scheduled release of flash inflation data for the euro area, which will be closely watched by investors for guidance on the odds of another interest rate cut from the European Central Bank.—
Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2024
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Residents who live near the intersection where the accident occurred said the flash mobs of street takeovers have become weekly occurrences in their neighborhood.—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2022
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The original deal for the documentary was made in 2018 between Netflix and representatives of Comerica Bank, the interim executor for Prince’s estate.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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Mike Scott, interim fire chief, had expressed concern over the decline in volunteerism back in February at the Shakopee City Council meeting that revealed the report’s findings.—
Julia Fomby,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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But every one of those people was somebody’s baby for at least a brief shining time, a child with potential, or an adult who wanted a life of security and love.—
Kevin Fagan,
TIME,
4 Feb. 2025
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Discovery, before offering a brief teaser about the new DTC plans.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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Although a prison population is naturally somewhat transient, some students were in his class for more than a decade, longtime friend Rachel Daly said.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
12 Feb. 2025
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Civilizations are inevitably transient — rising, expanding, collapsing, disappearing.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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His administration's efforts to characterize inflation as 'temporary' or 'transitory' in 2021 may have been technically correct, in the sense that the rate of inflation has come down from its heights following the pandemic.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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But for many people, this can become more than just a transitory concern and become an all-consuming worry and source of anxiety.—
Sean Mowbray,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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This makes ink caps one of our greatest reminders of how ephemeral life is in the fungal kingdom.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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This delight at lifeforms at once so ancient, dainty and ephemeral colors the Mira Stella universe.—
Lily Templeton,
WWD,
26 Sep. 2024
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With the passing last year of Dickey Betts, combined with the deaths in the last decade of Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks, tributes to the Allman Brothers Band have taken on a new poignancy.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
6 Feb. 2025
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Another simple factor to keep in mind: Beyoncé, 43, and Lamar, 37, have built bodies of work whose significance gets, with each passing year, harder and harder to deny.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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