transitional

adjective

Definition of transitionalnext
as in intermediate

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Recent Examples of transitional Authorities in Georgia are searching for a 40-year-old man who escaped from a state transitional center in Augusta earlier this week. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 The school also features a separate transitional kindergarten and kindergarten wing, a library, an administrative office and two playgrounds. — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 So far, the funding has been used to support more than 60 projects, mostly focused on affordable and transitional housing development in the East Side district. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026 After-school programs geared toward transitional kindergarten or elementary school students can also be important for a neighborhood. — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for transitional
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transitional
  1. intermediate
  2. transitory
  3. intermediary
  4. makeshift
  5. expedient
  6. ephemeral
Adjective
  • Fortunately, Gorbachev would drop his objections to SDI in time for both men to sign a landmark treaty in 1987 that abolished all intermediate range nuclear arms in Europe and made the entire world safer.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The United States developed it with Japan for medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of intermediate
Adjective
  • The Fed woke up from its dream of transitory inflation and began to raise rates.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • On the National Mall this week, Freedom 250 signs pointed visitors toward temporary state pavilions, a Ferris wheel and mobile, transitory history exhibits.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Definition of transitory
Adjective
  • Several intermediary organizations have recently emerged to support this effort.
    — Peter Hailey, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
  • Martino used the intermediary chat tab to provide confidential information about clients.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
Definition of intermediary
Adjective
  • The makeshift ballpark, which hosted the White Sox and Yankees in 2021 and the Cubs and Reds in 2022, now has permanent locker rooms and suites.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman.
    — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of makeshift
Adjective
  • While his expedient return to action after those injuries was commendable, the Mets are wondering if a lack of rehab took its toll.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
  • To avoid causing voters financial pain, lawmakers may try to take the more politically expedient path by allowing Social Security and Medicare to tap general revenue that funds other parts of the federal government.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 June 2026
Definition of expedient
Adjective
  • Traditional cybersecurity, particularly Zero Trust's reliance on identity, is insufficient for these autonomous, ephemeral agents.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The works are considered an exclamatory response to the institutional question of how to collect and display dance, a typically ephemeral form.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 29 July 2026
Definition of ephemeral

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