probationary
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Joslin had about four weeks left in a two-year probationary period.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
The NFL is pushing for mandatory training and development programs for low-performing and probationary officials, and contends the union is “resisting our efforts to give these officials access to more practice repetitions.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
They only came out of a two-year probationary period this summer.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025
Though he had been in the civil service for more than two years, a recent promotion designated him as a probationary worker—a category of staff among the first targeted for layoffs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025
De Los Santos was especially vulnerable because, like me, he had worked less than a year as a guard and was still on probationary status—not afforded all the protections of union members, in other words.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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