transitional

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Recent Examples of transitional Snag the natural brass to round out your transitional bathroom design. Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2025 Proficiency rates across first and second grade were above 70%, and transitional kindergarten was at 48%. Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025 The first is the California Literacy Roadmap's Literacy Content Blocks for English-Medium Classrooms, designed for transitional kindergarten through grade five. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025 This is particularly needed in transitional neighborhoods where renters come together to fight unfair evictions, improve housing conditions and push for more stable rents. Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, The Conversation, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for transitional
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Adjective
  • The last couple of years, this has been one of our best intermediate tracks as far as our 20 group goes.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2025
  • Most of the trails are for intermediate or advanced riders, with plenty of rocks and root gardens and some steep climbs.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • The tall, free-standing treehouses were designed to be folded and moved elsewhere by their inhabitants who, because of the area’s vulnerability to climate change, live a transitory lifestyle.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
  • Reilly also credits the transitory nature of many residents for making Iowa City so welcoming.
    Diana Lambdin Meyer, USA Today, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • But reducing intermediary involvement might also force PBMs to spin off their pharmacy operations entirely.
    Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • The partnership also spawned a covert payment network involving gold transfers and intermediary countries to bypass Western sanctions, complicating efforts by the United States and its allies to enforce export controls.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Therefore the May revise, as it’s dubbed, is likely to contain even more expedient fixes that may postpone the day of fiscal reckoning until Newsom’s governorship ends two years hence but will continue to plague his successor and the Legislature.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 9 May 2025
  • The discomforts include not just his recent and possibly expedient diagnosis of bipolar disorder but also the return of the other prodigal, Nazareth.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The technique makes an ephemeral beauty eternal by flattening the daisies, pansies, violets, and wildflowers that color your garden and turning them into enchanting home decor.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Architectural Digest, 27 May 2025
  • Photographers also took note of the entirely ordinary and ephemeral things around them: a shelf of glassware, a broom in a courtyard, a tree, a leaf.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025

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“Transitional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transitional. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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