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probationary

[proh-bey-shuh-ner-ee] / proʊˈbeɪ ʃəˌnɛr i /




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Probationary employees represent about 5% of full-time staff at the park service.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

"Probationary constable misbehaviour needs to be dealt with early on," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2022

Probationary sentences “should not necessarily become the default,” prosecutors wrote.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2021

Probationary firefighter Ron Johnson Jr. spotted small pills in the carpet.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2017

In the Probationary Odes for the Laureateship, published a few months after Boswell's Letter, a 'Great Personage' is ludicrously introduced; pp. xxx.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman




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