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[ adverb ] temporarily

Synonyms

for_the_moment

Examples

"we'll stop for the time being"

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

Queried about the impasse , Allied_Arts said : `` Better cancel the Kirov for_the_time_being .

(Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)

Rector asked him to move it for_the_time_being ; he wanted the mission compound to be effortlessly spotless .

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