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temporary

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The bill, which passed Congress without opposition, is only a temporary fix and expires in 2015.

Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.

On Monday, de Blasio called for a temporary halt to protests until after the funerals of the two slain officers.

This month a judge intervened and granted a 30-day temporary stay on police action against Abbott.

Or are the risks so great that a temporary ban is necessary?

It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.

But her attention was all absorbed by the swiftly executed act by which Garnache had gained at least a temporary advantage.

Close to the wagon in which our hero lay the natives had erected a temporary hut of grass, about six feet high.

Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.

For these plays were not the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.

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On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to temporary, such as: brief, interim, limited, makeshift, momentary, and provisional.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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