as in temporary
lasting only for a short time
he chose not to fret about the deciduous discomforts of his existence
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Recent Examples of deciduous
Snowdrops set leaves and bloom before many deciduous trees leaf out.
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Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2025
February • Implement disease and insect control for apple, pear, stone fruits, nut trees, and deciduous landscape trees and shrubs such as roses.
—The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
The deciduous hollies are loaded with fruit, and with the absence of the leaves, their bright red or orange berries really shine.
—Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Some azaleas are deciduous and lose all their leaves in the fall but losing some leaves is natural for evergreen varieties.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
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Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2025
February • Implement disease and insect control for apple, pear, stone fruits, nut trees, and deciduous landscape trees and shrubs such as roses.
—The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
The deciduous hollies are loaded with fruit, and with the absence of the leaves, their bright red or orange berries really shine.
—Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Some azaleas are deciduous and lose all their leaves in the fall but losing some leaves is natural for evergreen varieties.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deciduous
Adjective
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The agreement came hours after the trade unions went before Washington, D.C. federal judge John D. Bates seeking a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Labor from releasing the data.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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In an effort to sell more tickets, the NFL approved the addition of 13,000 temporary seats in the end zones, but approximately 1,250 were deemed unsafe by inspectors.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The German figures come a day before the scheduled release of flash inflation data for the euro area, which will be closely watched by investors for guidance on the odds of another interest rate cut from the European Central Bank.—
Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2024
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Residents who live near the intersection where the accident occurred said the flash mobs of street takeovers have become weekly occurrences in their neighborhood.—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2022
Adjective
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The scripted description of the library was very brief, with just one interesting detail — during installation, the new shelves opened up, like a flower.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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The first Elam ending finish was great, giving us a dramatic (and brief) fix to the All-Star Game’s erosion.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Although a prison population is naturally somewhat transient, some students were in his class for more than a decade, longtime friend Rachel Daly said.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
12 Feb. 2025
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Civilizations are inevitably transient — rising, expanding, collapsing, disappearing.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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With the passing last year of Dickey Betts, combined with the deaths in the last decade of Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks, tributes to the Allman Brothers Band have taken on a new poignancy.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
6 Feb. 2025
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Another simple factor to keep in mind: Beyoncé, 43, and Lamar, 37, have built bodies of work whose significance gets, with each passing year, harder and harder to deny.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This makes ink caps one of our greatest reminders of how ephemeral life is in the fungal kingdom.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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This delight at lifeforms at once so ancient, dainty and ephemeral colors the Mira Stella universe.—
Lily Templeton,
WWD,
26 Sep. 2024
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His administration's efforts to characterize inflation as 'temporary' or 'transitory' in 2021 may have been technically correct, in the sense that the rate of inflation has come down from its heights following the pandemic.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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But for many people, this can become more than just a transitory concern and become an all-consuming worry and source of anxiety.—
Sean Mowbray,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Deciduous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deciduous. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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