transitional
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He loved the rudimentary males he found embedded in the females of one particular species—precisely the kind of weird transitional form his theory of evolution would depend upon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Meiqian Kuang switches seamlessly between Mandarin and English as she teaches her transitional kindergarten students at Hillcrest Elementary in Monterey Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It said several key talks under the agreement remained incomplete and urged the parties to agree on a path towards credible elections and a peaceful end to the transitional period, which has lasted since independence.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
For an increasing number of Americans, renting has become a lasting financial reality, not a brief, transitional phase on the way to buying a home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Strictly speaking, Brahe and Kepler weren’t quite the last mystics—but they certainly were, in astronomy at least, transitional figures between the mysticism of the Ancients and the science of Galileo and his successors.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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