preliminary form

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Under its president, the writer Amin Maalouf, the dictionary committee meets every Thursday morning and after discussion gives its ruling on definitions that have been drawn up in preliminary form by outside experts.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

Tuesday’s election results — even in their preliminary form — only reinforced that theme.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022

Mr. Sullivan pushed back on that critique, maintaining that Mr. Biden’s budget followed the strategic guidance that was first laid out in preliminary form in his first weeks in office.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022

If you rely on the preliminary form, you may end up having to file an amended return , which would have to be manually processed and could delay your refund for months.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2022

They also held that Gotama had an ordinary human body and passed first into a preliminary form of Nirvana when he attained Buddhahood and secondly into complete Nirvana at his death.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir