as in international
relating to or involving two or more nations
climate change is a transnational problem that requires a transnational solution
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Recent Examples of transnational
All this points to the inherent limitations of leaving it to individuals to stop industrial-level transnational fraud.
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Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Monitoring a transnational gang like Tren de Aragua would typically fall under the purview of Homeland Security Investigations, which is a branch of ICE.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
But this transnational polity of 150,000 members across five continents has remained stable even as democracy has retreated elsewhere around the globe.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
In late 2023, for instance, two Ontario men, Kristoffer Nippak and Matthew Althorpe, were arrested and charged with distributing materials for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and the transnational terrorist group Terrorgram.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
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Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Monitoring a transnational gang like Tren de Aragua would typically fall under the purview of Homeland Security Investigations, which is a branch of ICE.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
But this transnational polity of 150,000 members across five continents has remained stable even as democracy has retreated elsewhere around the globe.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
In late 2023, for instance, two Ontario men, Kristoffer Nippak and Matthew Althorpe, were arrested and charged with distributing materials for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and the transnational terrorist group Terrorgram.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transnational
international
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American Airlines still flies a limited number of international and transcontinental routes with a dedicated first-class cabin, over and above their lie-flat business-class seats, but the airline plans to phase those out in the near future.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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Their new roles give the Tehran and Beijing regimes direct input into the international body’s policymaking on human rights.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Transnational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transnational. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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