probationary

Example Sentences

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Joslin had about four weeks left in a two-year probationary period.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The other two will only be activated if he "commits another infringement of a similar nature and gravity during the probationary period".

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Ramirez was fired less than a month later — weeks shy of completing her 18-month probationary period — after the department alleged that she lied about her reason for taking time off from work.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

Though he had been in the civil service for more than two years, a recent promotion designated him as a probationary worker—a category of staff among the first targeted for layoffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

During Cooksey’s East Coast tour, physics professor Robley Evans of MIT suggested that his university viewed its cyclotron project, then just getting under way with Stan Livingston in charge, as a sort of probationary test.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik