How to Use transnational in a Sentence

transnational

adjective
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  • Most transnational threats wax and wane over time but rarely fade away.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Tren de Aragua is a transnational gang based in Venezuela with around 5,000 members.
    — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • As is typical of the modern far right, the ISD found that these groups were transnational.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But something has to convince firms to get on board a transnational movement.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2018
  • For one, the end of the Cold War and the rise of transnational politics has made Western targets more prominent.
    — Gerasimos Tsourapas, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
  • Brown said the troops will augment a current mission that fights transnational crime.
    — Cheri Mossburg and Steve Almasy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • All sovereign peoples should have the right to take measures for their own safety well beyond the purview of the transnational elites.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Second, the transnational trade does not oversee and guide ivory poaching.
    — Kristof Titeca, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Trump has often cited crimes committed by the transnational gang MS-13 in cities as far from the southern border as New York.
    — Author: Manny Fernandez, Linda Qiu, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
  • 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
  • But none of these measures will protect people from the new transnational paradigm.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Gōken sits in Jedi-like calm at the locus of a nascent transnational subculture: gamers who approach fighting games as martial arts.
    — Chris Goto-Jones, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The cities are grappling with allegations of incidents linked to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan transnational gang.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The strategy document places the growing threat of white supremacy in a transnational context.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
  • So do many transnational elites and American politicos in both parties.
    — Mark P. Mills, WSJ, 22 June 2021
  • While not new, these transnational protests have become more frequent now because of social media.
    — Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2020
  • 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

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