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provisory

[pruh-vahy-zuh-ree] / prəˈvaɪ zə ri /


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My feelings of safety and belonging are still highly provisory.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2020

The airline seats are arranged in a group and function as a provisory sofa for the volunteers.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2015

The march of science has always consisted in gradually eliminating these provisory conceptions and in reducing the number of causes.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

To enact which provisory character, so unspeakably important, might its whole faculties but have sufficed; and so a peaceable, gradual, well-conducted Abdication and Domine-dimittas have been the issue!

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

The resources of the exchequer were at that time so scanty that Orejon ordered the provisory use of fagots in the construction of the fortifications of Havana.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson


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