The phrase "a temporary episode" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a short-lived event or situation that is not permanent.
Example: "The patient experienced a temporary episode of dizziness, which resolved after a few minutes."
Alternatives: "a brief occurrence" or "a short-term event".
Judge Jeremy Roberts, sitting at the Old Bailey, made the community rehabilitation order after saying he accepted the singer had suffered a "temporary episode" of mental illness.
Finally, the Supreme Court ruled in the newspapers' favour and let the presses roll, albeit after a temporary episode of censorship.Among the most intriguing figures to emerge during the episode was Daniel Ellsberg, a former gung-ho marine and war planner at the Rand Corporation who had turned against the American engagement in Vietnam.
Standage's argument is that the essential aspects of social media — exchange of information that runs horizontally, among people who are affiliated in some way, rather than top-down from centralized sources — have been pervasive through history, with the industrial age's news media only a temporary episode of disruption.
In this patient drug resistance scores against the drug regimen administered at the time increased considerably (Table 4), and there was a temporary episode of detectable viremia around the suspected time of superinfection (Additional file 7).
In hindsight, we have to admit that we were quite slow in appreciating that Cryptosporidium infection in a renal transplant patient is a major, significant and difficult to treat, complication, rather than a temporary episode of diarrhoea with an unusual pathogen.
Three groups of experiences were identified in a Flemish (Belgian) sample: (1) a disruption, with feelings of loss and despair; (2) an unpleasant but temporary episode; and (3) a meaningful period after which new life priorities are set.
Some astronomers thought it was a supernova, but odd pulsations before the outburst convinced others that the object was a giant star that survived an extreme but temporary episode of brightening.
It wasn't until well after they'd begun hibernating that bears experienced a temporary, seasonal episode of insulin resistance, but even that was completely reversed come springtime.
My son had a temporary discipline episode at school when he had just been diagnosed with PTSD.
One day previously she had noticed visual obscurations in her left eye also after waking in the morning, which she described as temporary episodes of blurred vision lasting ∼2 min. She had attended a session for haemodialysis the day prior to when these visual symptoms started.
Our author talks of "temporary episodes such as 1939-41" – but not the Hitler-Stalin pact, presumably fearing guilt by association.
