as in hesitantly
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Phase 1 construction is likely to begin in November, and the park’s ribbon cutting is tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of 2026.
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Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2025
In fact, many historical poets, novelists and playwrights have been tentatively associated with autism or other kinds of neurodivergence, such as William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf.
—Bradley J. Irish, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2025
The former congressman is tentatively scheduled to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
But in many cases federal courts have not stopped the president outright -- tentatively allowing the mass firing of thousands of government employees, greenlighting a historic federal buyout, and, for now, allowing the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
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Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2025
In fact, many historical poets, novelists and playwrights have been tentatively associated with autism or other kinds of neurodivergence, such as William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf.
—Bradley J. Irish, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2025
The former congressman is tentatively scheduled to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
But in many cases federal courts have not stopped the president outright -- tentatively allowing the mass firing of thousands of government employees, greenlighting a historic federal buyout, and, for now, allowing the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
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