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Ford raised its offer to $21 per hour with profit sharing and said it would make temporaries full-time workers after 90 days of continuous service.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

Presumably, some of the best candidates are employed--and aren't looking.We call that the Accolo Theory of Relativity: We're all temporaries; it's just a matter of degrees.

From Inc • Mar. 25, 2013

All temporaries would be ineligible for welfare or unemployment benefits, but they could send their children to public schools.

From Time Magazine Archive

Workers have also complained that they were paid as temporaries for longer than the law allowed, and not given automatic raises after one year, as required.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, it did not, like most temporaries, attain its maximum brightness all at once.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)