as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
because of the transiency of their residency, college students often display little interest in the welfare of the towns where they go to school
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Recent Examples of transiency
But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.
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Dallas News, 27 July 2022
The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
Logistical complications to vaccinating in prisons could include the transiency of inmates, who cycle through jails and prisons for highly variable timeframes -- an extra big problem with a two-dose immunization.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2020
The town suffered from high rates of transiency and wild economic swings, which contributed to one of the country’s highest suicide rates.
—Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
Dallas News, 27 July 2022
The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
Logistical complications to vaccinating in prisons could include the transiency of inmates, who cycle through jails and prisons for highly variable timeframes -- an extra big problem with a two-dose immunization.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2020
The town suffered from high rates of transiency and wild economic swings, which contributed to one of the country’s highest suicide rates.
—Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transiency
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Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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This inherent impermanence makes tariffs totally ineffective at driving long-term corporate decision-making regarding where to locate facilities and jobs.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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In each of these works, Sugimoto expresses his lifelong existential investigation of permanence and impermanence, of what is and is not real, of form and emptiness, and in doing so his works of art capturie the unimaginable and the unseen.Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
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But his understanding of the ephemerality of youth lends emotional impact to what might otherwise have been just killer party music.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Transiency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transiency. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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