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

U.S. jobs data and eurozone provisional inflation figures for March will attract attention in the coming week as data begins to give a picture of how the war in the Middle East has affected economies.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, we are presented with a set of writing scenes that are provisional, improvised, transitory and, in many senses, unreproducible.

From The Wall Street Journal

The team has also submitted a provisional patent for this work.

From Science Daily

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