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The harvest is dependent upon transient laborers.transient = staying only a short time
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youth's transient beauty
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From our brief conversation I deduced that I had just met the celebrated eccentric whom the locals called the Mayor of Hippie Cove, a reference to a bight of tidewater north of town that was a magnet for long-haired transients, near which the Mayor had been living for some years. (source)transients = people who live in an area for a short time
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It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. (source)transient = lasting a short time
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During periods of extreme stress, transient psychotic symptoms may occur, (source)
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There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees. (source)transients = people who stay for only a short time
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His transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent. (source)transient = lasting a short time
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Permanent transients with no attachments and... (source)transients = people who stay in a place for only a short time
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The church's strength was its tradition, not its transience.† (source)
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SISTER MARY JOSEPH PRAISE moved her head, and Matron believed that she was at least transiently aware that Matron held her hand.† (source)
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He knew too well the transiency of exquisite moments to attempt to follow her; but presently he reentered the house and made his way through the deserted rooms to the door.† (source)
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He achieved now another sort of loneliness connected with death, this one nontransient and intense.† (source)nontransient = permanentstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontransient means not and reverses the meaning of transient. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of... (source)transient = lasting a short time
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But I still remember what she said to me about my transience in Tobias's life.† (source)
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The restaurant was small; barely a restaurant, more like a quick-lunch diner, a place for truck drivers, transients like us, Artkin said.† (source)
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But the tie which, through their common calamity, had united the feelings of these simple dwellers in the woods with the strangers who had thus transiently visited them, was not so easily broken.† (source)
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