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Recent Examples of tentatively
The new venue is tentatively slated to open in the spring of 2026.
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Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Construction is tentatively set to begin after the 2026 Kentucky Derby, held next year on May 2, with a target completion in time for the Run for the Roses in 2028.
—Matthew Glowicki, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
The two gorillas were tentatively named Samson and Sambo, and a contest was held to suggest new names for the pair.
—Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, San Rafael City Attorney Rob Epstein said Tuesday that the city has tentatively agreed to pay the man Nail arrested, Julio Jimenez Lopez, $999,000 to settle his civil rights lawsuit.
—Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
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Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Construction is tentatively set to begin after the 2026 Kentucky Derby, held next year on May 2, with a target completion in time for the Run for the Roses in 2028.
—Matthew Glowicki, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
The two gorillas were tentatively named Samson and Sambo, and a contest was held to suggest new names for the pair.
—Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, San Rafael City Attorney Rob Epstein said Tuesday that the city has tentatively agreed to pay the man Nail arrested, Julio Jimenez Lopez, $999,000 to settle his civil rights lawsuit.
—Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tentatively
Adverb
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As Garfield hesitantly moves forward with his campaign, he is forced to align with Chester Arthur (Nick Offerman), who unexpectedly becomes his running mate, and with the domineering but highly influential Senator Roscoe Conkling (Shea Whigham).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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His crossing has often been a source of frustration, sometimes ballooning the ball too often, taking too long to put it into the area or cutting back on himself hesitantly.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That test soon divides matter, even for a far from sensitive ear, into what reads well & what reads tamely, haltingly, jerkily, lopsidedly, top-heavily, or otherwise badly.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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As the world lost its CO2 blanket over this age of mammals, though, and the world chilled, grasslands, having invented a new form of photosynthesis adapted to this drier, lower-CO2 world, haltingly but inexorably took over much of the Earth.—
Peter Brannen,
Big Think,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Tentatively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tentatively. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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