preliminary
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The preliminary injunction will take effect Tuesday, April 21.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Professor Sumantra Ray, Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, which co-owns the journal, emphasized that the findings are still preliminary.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
The preliminary first-quarter sales numbers, reported late Wednesday, also represent a 11% decline from a year ago.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
It sent preliminary findings, proposing that Google start to let third-party search engines, as well as artificial-intelligence chatbots, access search data, including ranking, query and click-and-view data on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
New courses on hospital nursing and preliminary anatomy began.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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