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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transitional
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
  • These intermediary races feature plenty of their own tricky designs to bridge one track to the next.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
  • Popoola emphasizes that while Africa has the resources, workforce, and untapped potential the global economy needs, underdeveloped intermediary systems and fragmented regulations remain barriers to entry.
    Tim Clark, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • In a video interview, Sophie de Lint, the Dutch company’s director, said co-productions were environmentally necessary, not merely financially expedient.
    A.J. Goldmann, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Episodes of natural selection are sometimes ephemeral, and evidence of them vanishes from our genomes when the selective pressures subside or when populations mix.
    Kermit Pattison, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • Build ephemeral content tools (think generative UX/design, chatbots, auto summaries, etc.) to allow readers to engage in personal ways.
    Dan Gardner, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Transitional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transitional. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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