as in international
relating to or involving two or more nations
climate change is a transnational problem that requires a transnational solution
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Russia’s secret police may have the dubious honor of having invented transnational repression: beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, tsarist secret police infiltrated and harassed Russian political émigrés in France and Switzerland.
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Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime authority, not a tool for presidents to use to address migration or even transnational criminal activity.
—Karen Ebel, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
Right now, the transnational movement of illiberal nationalism is more organized, united, and strategic in its collective actions than the liberal democratic movement.
—Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
The warrant was one of some 20 served across Yuba, Sutter, Butte and Tehama counties, part of a years-long investigation into transnational drug trafficking by NET-5, the multiagency Yuba-Sutter Narcotics and Gang Task Force.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime authority, not a tool for presidents to use to address migration or even transnational criminal activity.
—Karen Ebel, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
Right now, the transnational movement of illiberal nationalism is more organized, united, and strategic in its collective actions than the liberal democratic movement.
—Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
The warrant was one of some 20 served across Yuba, Sutter, Butte and Tehama counties, part of a years-long investigation into transnational drug trafficking by NET-5, the multiagency Yuba-Sutter Narcotics and Gang Task Force.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Transnational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transnational. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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