provisional

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Police said provisional figures show that between 1 January and 22 March this year there were 18 road traffic fatalities in Northern Ireland.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

EU countries voted to allow the commission to move forward with applying the deal on a provisional basis in January.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 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

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking