temporary; provisional; for the time being

This kind of medicine can temporarily alleviate pain. If you need it, just take it.

In order to complete the development on schedule, we request that other unrelated tasks be delayed for the moment.

Form is temporary, class is permanent.

Life is like a marathon, where short-term gains and losses are not significant in and of themselves.

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