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as in temporary
intended to last, continue, or serve for a limited time
built an impermanent structure to serve for the archaeologists' living quarters during the dig
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as in flash
lasting only for a short time
a summer romance that was an impermanent fancy, quickly forgotten
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Recent Examples of impermanent
There is the notion of light, which for me—coming from Bangladesh and being in a pavilion and in our context—the form is a nod to the shamas (lightweight, impermanent canopy structures).
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Nargess Banks, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Her death shortly after the future Buddha’s birth serves as a reminder that life is impermanent and characterized by suffering.
—Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
That relationship with how impermanent our time is here has been really healthy.
—Eric Ryan, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Any choices are impermanent given the Warriors’ injury report.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
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Nargess Banks, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Her death shortly after the future Buddha’s birth serves as a reminder that life is impermanent and characterized by suffering.
—Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
That relationship with how impermanent our time is here has been really healthy.
—Eric Ryan, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Any choices are impermanent given the Warriors’ injury report.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impermanent
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For scientists who track animal behavior, the eclipse provided the perfect natural experiment to see how birds react to temporary changes in light, something that is difficult to achieve in a laboratory setting.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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And yet these wins may be temporary—the Administration is pursuing appeals.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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And many supermarkets offer bags of flash-frozen cranberries year-round.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
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What To Know A map shared by the NWS on Facebook showed a broad corridor of flash-flood risk spanning the Western states and Southern Plains.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Aug. 2025
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By halfway through the 2022 season, Rhule had been fired by owner David Tepper , interim head coach Steve Wilks had been installed and Mayfield (after famously taking a few snaps at defensive line for the scout team at one practice) had asked for and had been granted his release.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Oct. 2025
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Weeks later, Kennedy ousted then-agency Director Susan Monarez after less than a month on the job, installing one of his top deputies as her interim replacement.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
14 Oct. 2025
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At the very end, his mother made a brief appearance to wrap up the routine.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
15 Oct. 2025
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The two most recently fought a brief conflict earlier this year.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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In fact, the tranquility of the rocking waves, or maybe the transient, ineffable quality of the water, seems to have lodged in Christian’s brain.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2025
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The recent brightening could be a transient outburst rather than a steady increase as the comet approaches to the sun, only time will tell.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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From their perspective, a star is just a transitory stage, a chrysalis.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
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All empires are transitory, right?—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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Up ⬆ One Battle After Another The Oscars are very much not determined by statistics; there are graveyards full of Oscar hopefuls that looked like winners on paper but ultimately didn’t connect with voters for some ephemeral reason or another.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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Emphasizing the project’s conceptual basis, one particularly ephemeral edition, The Biggest Nemyrivskiy Art Center, 2013, was a roughly nineteen-thousand-square-foot rectangle outlined on a snowy field by a plow, disappearing as soon as the snow began to melt.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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La’Vell Wright leads the ground game with 203 yards and five scores, while Matthew Henry is the big-play threat in the passing game with 21 catches, 377 yards, and three TDs.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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The offensive passing game benefited with play-action fakes.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Impermanent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impermanent. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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