transactional

Example Sentences

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Critics argue that the Accords are transactional and shallow: photo-ops dressed up as diplomacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

You’re able to evade feeling pinched by the noose of transactional cosmopolitianism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The president, he adds, is "known to have a transactional understanding of alliance relationships in general".

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

If you give him one penny of your own money, it will open up a transactional codependence between you and this man, who is a virtual stranger.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

There was a rigid transactional probity, it seems to say; there was also a high tide of inspiration.

From Italian Hours by James, Henry