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Recent Examples of tentatively
The two gorillas were tentatively named Samson and Sambo, and a contest was held to suggest new names for the pair.
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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
Per the pilot’s script cover posted by Shyamalan, the series appears to be titled (or at least tentatively titled) Magic 8 Ball.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
Real yields are still high, fiscal deficits remain historically large, and Fed rhetoric has only tentatively shifted toward easing.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
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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
Per the pilot’s script cover posted by Shyamalan, the series appears to be titled (or at least tentatively titled) Magic 8 Ball.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
Real yields are still high, fiscal deficits remain historically large, and Fed rhetoric has only tentatively shifted toward easing.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tentatively
Adverb
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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
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The clip shows the massive American bully hesitantly backing away from a tiny, energetic puppy.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 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 3 Nov. 2025.
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