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The leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebel group, which led the surprise offensive striking out of Idlib southwards towards Damascus, vowed that the transitional government would hold to account those implicated in Assad's human rights abuses.
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David Brennan, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
Increase funding: State and federal governments must allocate sustainable funding for transitional housing and support services.
—Jasmyne B. Ford, Baltimore Sun, 13 Dec. 2024
This year was supposed to be a transitional year for movies.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
Outgoing officials met for the first time Tuesday with al-Bashir, who told reporters that the transitional period would last until the beginning of March.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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David Brennan, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
Increase funding: State and federal governments must allocate sustainable funding for transitional housing and support services.
—Jasmyne B. Ford, Baltimore Sun, 13 Dec. 2024
This year was supposed to be a transitional year for movies.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
Outgoing officials met for the first time Tuesday with al-Bashir, who told reporters that the transitional period would last until the beginning of March.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transitional
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This allowed the team to distinguish between the effect of an intermediate black hole and a cluster of stellar-mass black holes.Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Still, in the near to intermediate term, that’s where any value Gimenez provides is going to come from.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Alas, Chiron and all its fellow centaurs are in a transitory phase, and over the next million years its ultimate fate will be decided.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Will the Fed act quickly or take the view that inflation is transitory?Garth Friesen, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Plus, travelers may receive transaction discounts and more affordable fares thanks to decentralized platforms that facilitate direct payments, thereby avoiding intermediary platforms that can cause an increase in processing fees.Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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This step can also serve as an intermediary one before becoming estranged.Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 5 Sep. 2024
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As the election postmortems continue, people should remember that the struggle for equality is rarely politically expedient or popular — especially at the outset.Anthony D. Romero, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2024
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Raisman, like Chiles, was also the last to go in her Olympic final, making the time-crunch to file an expedient appeal particularly intense and the result more dramatic.Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
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Beyond that, there’s the issue of how ephemeral TikTok can be.Adam Bumas, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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Gift wrapping is, perhaps, one of the world’s most ephemeral art forms.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Transitional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transitional. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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