for the time being

Adverb

Meaning

temporarily

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Examples

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. Franz Kafka

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time. Carol Vorderman

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. Oswald Spengler

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life. Edsger W. Dijkstra

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being. David Rockefeller

... you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being. Brian Tracy

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