probationary
Example Sentences
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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 other two will only be activated if he "commits another infringement of a similar nature and gravity during the probationary period".
From BBC • Nov. 26, 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
Hundreds of probationary workers at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have been fired, and the fulltime staff will be trimmed by 2,000.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025
The guards, most of them probationary prisoners, were not much better off.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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