I. adjective
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transient pleasures
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Phoenix has a very transient population.
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Elevations of serum transaminase are usually transient and dose-related, but occasionally can indicate severe hepatotoxicity.
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Once the transient sleep problem has passed, stop taking the sleeping pills.
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The transient nature of speech does not permit editing of the speech signal.
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The cause is not transient but structural and deep-seated.
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The essentially transient regime left behind little but resentment and destruction.
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The grandchild's more numerous social connections are shallower, more transient and imbued with less moral content than the grandfather's.
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They list possible side effects as mild to moderate and transient .
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With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient .
II. noun
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Empty houses attract drug users and transients.
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Farther along the street was a transient who was carrying his belongings in a plastic bag.
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He had been living as a transient in San Diego for several years before his arrest.
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In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient .
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On Wednesday, Brown apologized for his outbursts and vowed to get tough on park transients.
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The king decreed that anyone who attempted to feed or house the eighty-six-year-old transient would be punished for their efforts.