provisional
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In 2023, judges halted the trial, deeming the wheelchair-bound Kabuga "unfit to participate meaningfully" in proceedings, but he was ordered to remain detained awaiting provisional release.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
If Mudryk's ban is upheld by Cas, he would be unable to play again until roughly December 2028, as that is four years since his provisional suspension began.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
The Ukraine international, 25, has been sidelined for nearly 18 months after an "adverse finding in a routine urine test" led to a provisional suspension in December 2024.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
The Foreign Ministry said that the country’s Attorney General’s Office “will determine whether there is sufficient evidence under the Mexican legal system and the viability of the requests for provisional arrest for extradition purposes.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
“That there’s going to be no transition at all? No interim period for—I don’t know—a provisional government-in-training? Just wham, the Belgians are gone and the Congolese have to run everything on their own?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The Unteachables
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The Treaty of Paris (1783)
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