provisional
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The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44—the general fertility rate—reached a record low of 53.1 in 2025, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
The team has also submitted a provisional patent for this work.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
A plea hearing will take place on 3 June and a provisional trial date was set for February 2027.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
“I’m struck by that in a way the crayon or marker drawing is provisional — there’s no final form to it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 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
Vocabulary lists containing provisional
The Unteachables
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The Dawes Act
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The Treaty of Paris (1783)
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