preliminary
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District Judge Troy Nunley issued a preliminary injunction on Friday that blocks the companies from integrating their operations, siding with DirecTV and a coalition of eight states that sued to stop the deal.
From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026
Chirkinian is scheduled to return to court in September for a preliminary hearing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
Professor Sumantra Ray, Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, which co-owns the journal, emphasized that the findings are still preliminary.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
It sent preliminary findings, proposing that Google start to let third-party search engines, as well as artificial-intelligence chatbots, access search data, including ranking, query and click-and-view data on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
In the week’s holiday after preliminary training, before the probationer year began, she had stayed with her uncle and aunt in Primrose Hill and had resisted her mother on the telephone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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