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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. 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
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Noun
  • Idleness seems to breed awareness of one’s own transience. . .
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 1 May 2025
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  • For all the impermanence — packing up and relocating just about every two years — Hutson said his upbringing was in many ways ideal, shaping his outlook to this day.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • The Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi—finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and authenticity—has long been a staple of international design discourse.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2025
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  • The statistic is notoriously volatile, and averaging such a short period only exacerbates its ephemerality.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Flowers are often emblems of ephemerality and mortality, as in the vanitas paintings so common in 17th-century Europe, where elaborate bouquets were often paired with skulls, fruit, and other reminders that blooming and decaying, life and death, are inseparable.
    Rebecca Solnit October 19, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2021
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  • To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.
    Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025

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“Transiency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transiency. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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