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Recent Examples of transitional
Celebrities have been breaking out their leather pants as of late, providing fresh outfit inspiration for the next few weeks of transitional dressing ahead.
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Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
The anticipated transitional season?
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
But substantial uncertainties remain about when Israeli military forces would withdraw from most of the Gaza Strip, exactly how a transitional body would govern and police the enclave, and now, most critically, whether Hamas will acquiesce to the terms of the plan.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
Earlier in 2025, Brooklyn and Nicola appeared in Moncler’s pre-fall collection rollout, lending their visibility to the luxury brand’s sharp outerwear and transitional designs.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
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Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
The anticipated transitional season?
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
But substantial uncertainties remain about when Israeli military forces would withdraw from most of the Gaza Strip, exactly how a transitional body would govern and police the enclave, and now, most critically, whether Hamas will acquiesce to the terms of the plan.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
Earlier in 2025, Brooklyn and Nicola appeared in Moncler’s pre-fall collection rollout, lending their visibility to the luxury brand’s sharp outerwear and transitional designs.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transitional
Adjective
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For those cautious about duration, intermediate exposures balance interest rate sensitivity with attractive yields beyond 10 years.—
Paul Malloy,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Defenses can also try coverage disguises — show man, then play Cover 2 to put extra defenders in the intermediate zones.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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From their perspective, a star is just a transitory stage, a chrysalis.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
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All empires are transitory, right?—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Without intermediary markups and administrative complexities, direct-to-consumer channels can offer substantial savings.—
Ge Bai,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This intermediary run began in Chicago, where the film sold out the Music Box theater ahead of a pool party on Aug. 22.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The show's runaway success and growing anticipation for the second season, which releases in December 2025, means revelers will surely be met with a sea of blue jumpsuits, ghoulish face paint and makeshift Pipboys this Halloween season for the second year in a row.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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While Billy Napier spoke at a makeshift podium after losing to Miami 26-7, Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin stood in the back of the room.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Mussolini is at once an incisive psychological portrait of one of the 20th century’s most destructive individuals and a clear-eyed dissection of fascism’s politically expedient, intellectually incoherent origins.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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Buying from Rheinmetall looks politically expedient.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Emphasizing the project’s conceptual basis, one particularly ephemeral edition, The Biggest Nemyrivskiy Art Center, 2013, was a roughly nineteen-thousand-square-foot rectangle outlined on a snowy field by a plow, disappearing as soon as the snow began to melt.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Various cultures interpreted the ephemeral aberrations as fairies, ghosts or spirits.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Transitional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transitional. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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