How to Use transnational in a Sentence

transnational

adjective
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  • As is typical of the modern far right, the ISD found that these groups were transnational.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The big six transnational companies that make most of the world’s baby formula saw this as a boon.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The United States has sent billions of dollars in aid to Colombia over the years, much of that to combat transnational crime and drug trafficking.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
  • In the postwar period, a transnational culture war against noise took off.
    — Matthew Jordan, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Animals rights activists say the move did not go far enough because the transnational livestock trade is rife with abuses.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The only transnational flight scheduled for the foreseeable future is from Venezuela.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • By its nature, transnational repression is hard for any one country to fix.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • The transnational phenomenon of Nollywood is on display for the world and primed to become a mainstay.
    — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang that originated in a Venezuela prison and has slowly made its way south and north in recent years.
    — Rafael Romo, CNN, 9 June 2024
  • There are also a lot of researchers working now on the idea of classical music as networks, and as transnational networks.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Most of it is - is not related to transnational terrorism.
    — CBS News, 30 June 2024
  • Jack’s fear now is that China’s growing transnational policing will ensnare him, too.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The handful of American and Paraguayan agents had been assigned to find the man at the center of a new transnational drug cartel dispatching boatloads of cocaine to Europe.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Solidarity tourism grew out of both the rise of mass tourism in the mid-20th century, which has grown to be a trillion-dollar industry, and the rise of transnational activism.
    — Zeb Larson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Yemen’s branch of the transnational Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood.
    — Ahmed Al-Haj and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2022
  • So do many transnational elites and American politicos in both parties.
    — Mark P. Mills, WSJ, 22 June 2021
  • But the purpose of his speech should have been to foster peace and unity in addressing the transnational challenges that the U.N., however imperfectly, strives to solve.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Putin’s rule is a transnational criminal enterprise and should be treated much in the same way that the U.S. has approached Venezuela’s kleptocracy.
    — Nate Sibley, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The central role of the pope in Rome in 600 a.d. illustrates that after the fall of the Empire, the Christian Church remained the singular transnational institution standing.
    — Razib Khan, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Yet the setup feels more like a cynical play for transnational appeal than a hard look at real-life surveillance work and the media that glamorizes it.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Of the most prolific perpetrators of transnational repression, China stands in a league of its own.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But now that American forces are no longer combating transnational militants in the region, Afghanistan’s neighbors worry the Taliban cannot, or will not, fill the gap.
    — Graeme Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The transnational synergy between brand and new man looks pretty promising.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2021
  • This project documents the Miya community that depends on land near the transnational Brahmaputra River for their livelihood and their identity in the eyes of the state.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Sand dredging disrupts coastlines and rivers, and the industry is full of transnational corruption.
    — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Gradually its rulers turned away from loyalty to the Great Khan in the east, and at length embraced a diluted Islam, sharing the transnational prestige of a widespread faith.
    — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
  • Even now, turbulence around the Ukraine has quickly changed the energy landscape, highlighting the huge challenges of such transnational efforts.
    — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The three countries — as well as Tunisian opponents of Ennahda — have for years sought to link the party to the transnational Muslim Brotherhood and accused it of abetting terrorism.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2021
  • The Guðmundsson brothers of the Westman Islands don’t care too much about the politics of the transnational negotiations.
    — Regin Winther Poulsen, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Her office also signed an agreement with Mexico's AG to combat transnational gangs.
    — Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 3 Aug. 2024

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