interim

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A conservative former state Assembly member from Riverside County, Essayli, 40, was sworn in as interim U.S. attorney last April.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has been nominated as the new interim attorney general.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2026

He said regime figures who are sanctioned may now see the lifting of sanctions on the interim president as a sign they could be next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

"It makes me even more delighted to have a 35-year-old youth as my successor," the outgoing interim prime minister, who hugged Shah after he took the oath, said in a statement.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“That there’s going to be no transition at all? No interim period for—I don’t know—a provisional government-in-training? Just wham, the Belgians are gone and the Congolese have to run everything on their own?”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver