This evidence suggests that holding low-income jobs is largely a transitory stage for people with little work experience.

The Solutrean may be seen as a transitory stage between the flint implements of the Mousterian and the bone implements of the Magdalenian epochs.

Project 1: The employment experience of the older worker A growing proportion of the population are in a transitory stage between paid employment and old age.

The report explains that there will be many transitory stages from capitalism, to socialism, and finally to communism.

In either case, the protonema is a transitory stage in the life of a hornwort.

The real problem, of course, is that tangle of "internal tensions and disturbances," which in a happier day seemed like a transitory stage of nationhood.

India and Pakistan finally separated as independent dominions in 1947, but in the changed post-WWII conditions this proved a transitory stage.

It would suggest it's just not a transitory stage.

This is a transitory stage in the life of a moss, but from the protonema grows the gametophore ("gamete-bearer") that is structurally differentiated into stems and leaves.