tentatively
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Another judge dealt the backers of the measure a second loss by tentatively finding that their description of the measure, submitted for the official state voter’s guide, was misleading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Work cleaning the Oceanwide Plaza skyscrapers — known informally as Graffiti Towers — will begin immediately, according to the $517-million sale agreement tentatively approved by a federal judge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The city tentatively agreed to sell the street to the church for $1.375 million, prompting a resident counterproposal to buy it instead as a memorial to Clearwater’s Black history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Traffic had tentatively begun moving through the critical shipping lane this week, including three Saudi-flagged supertankers that together were carrying more than six million barrels of crude, Kpler ship-tracking data showed on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
She took a fish from the package and pushed the hook tentatively, but it didn’t go in.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Vocabulary lists containing tentatively
The Giver
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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A Raisin in the Sun
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