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preliminary

[pri-lim-uh-ner-ee] / prɪˈlɪm əˌnɛr i /




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The preliminary injunction will take effect Tuesday, April 21.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

QuidelOrtho currently expects preliminary unaudited first-quarter revenue between $615 million and $620 million, about 9% below Wall Street’s estimate of $671.8 million, according to FactSet.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 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

For their preliminary, the boys from Washington were assigned to race against France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, and the crew they were most concerned about, Great Britain.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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