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This article aims to fill this gap for locally stationary time series with short-range dependence. First, we characterize the PACF locally in the time domain and show that the jth PACF decays with j at a rate that adapts to the temporal dependence of the time series $ \\{x_{i,n}\\} $. Second, at each time $ i, $ inspired by Killick et al. (2020). We show that the PACF can be efficiently approximated by the best linear prediction coefficients via the Yule\u2013Walker equations. This allows us to study the PACF via ordinary least squares locally. Third, we show that the PACF is smooth in time for locally stationary time series. We use the sieve method with ordinary least squares to estimate the PACF and construct some statistics to test the PACF and infer the structure of the time series. These tests generalize and modify those used in Brockwell &amp; Davis (1987) for stationary time series. 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