provisional

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Instead, we are presented with a set of writing scenes that are provisional, improvised, transitory and, in many senses, unreproducible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

The opening of an inquest into her death at Gwent Coroner's Court heard a post mortem examination had given the provisional cause of death as one of multiple injuries.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

UC Davis has filed a provisional patent related to the invention.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 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