Example Sentences

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Some people, though, experience loneliness not just transiently but chronically.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

"We have a way of probing the short time window before this recombination occurs, and that allowed us to see that a fluid of Hubbard excitons is transiently stabilized."

From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023

This is important, because rainfall and sewage overflow events transiently increase the number of bacteria in water and may not be picked up during routine monitoring.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2023

Developmental biologists have long known that the off-center placement of the heart and other organs is linked to a group of cells called the left-right organizer, which transiently forms in an early embryo.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2021

This cost happens transiently to coincide with the price, but does not regulate it.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates