How to Use transnational in a Sentence

transnational

adjective
  • Most transnational threats wax and wane over time but rarely fade away.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There is no way to protect just one nation or one region when threats are transnational.
    — Madhukar Pai, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But something has to convince firms to get on board a transnational movement.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Brown said the troops will augment a current mission that fights transnational crime.
    — Cheri Mossburg and Steve Almasy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • What was the nation-state in a transnational forever war?
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Second, the transnational trade does not oversee and guide ivory poaching.
    — Kristof Titeca, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • This is the first in a series of articles on transnational romance fraud.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This is the third in a series of articles about transnational romance fraud.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • By its nature, transnational repression is hard for any one country to fix.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • In the postwar period, a transnational culture war against noise took off.
    — Matthew Jordan, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • This is the second in a series of articles about transnational romance fraud.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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 none of these measures will protect people from the new transnational paradigm.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 Apr. 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
  • Jack’s fear now is that China’s growing transnational policing will ensnare him, too.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • So do many transnational elites and American politicos in both parties.
    — Mark P. Mills, WSJ, 22 June 2021
  • Tren de Aragua is a transnational gang based in Venezuela with around 5,000 members.
    — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The tools developed in the fight against other transnational threats should be used to safeguard the world’s forests against exploitation.
    — Justyna Gudzowska, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2025
  • The anti-gender movement is no longer fringe but rather well funded, organized and transnational.
    — Elizabeth Anne Wood, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • As is typical of the modern far right, the ISD found that these groups were transnational.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The film emphasizes that the diversity of the transnational fandom is its strength.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • The only transnational flight scheduled for the foreseeable future is from Venezuela.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The strategy document places the growing threat of white supremacy in a transnational context.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Presidents of both parties have used covert and overt action when diplomacy failed to neutralize transnational threats.
    — Timothy M. Herbst, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2026
  • To hear progressives tell it, going after transnational criminals and gang members is beside the point.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026
  • An eighth person named in the release was alleged to be a member of the transnational Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 23 July 2025
  • The sides also agreed to cooperate in suppressing transnational crimes.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025

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