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temporary
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temporary adjective acting, ad tempus, brief, changeable, deciduous, elusive, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, makeshift, momentary, monohemerous, nondurable, perishable, provisional, shifting, short-lived, stopgap, temporal, transient, transitional, transitive, transitory, unstable, volatile
Associated concepts: temporary restraining order
See also: acting, brief, ephemeral, interim, interlocutory, provisional, tentative, transient, transitory, vicarious

TEMPORARY. That which is to last for a limited time; as, a temporary statute, or one which is limited in its operation for a particular period of time after its enactment the opposite of perpetual.



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When an airplane goes down, a hurricane strikes or a relationship dissolves, we're faced with the reality that despite the defenses we have mounted against temporariness, we do not escape it.
The evidence is sketchy, but like the familiar symptoms of a cold, confidence in their temporariness may help speed the cycle of emotions.
But the temporariness of the assignment can be good for him and the district, he says.
 
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