provisional
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The provisional pact was then fleshed out in a wider circle on Thursday, when a meeting among leading supervisory-board members was already scheduled to prepare for the wider meeting on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
A provisional toll put the number of excess deaths between mid-June and mid-August at 32,000 across Europe.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
A generation is learning, before it can vote, that its account of its own life is provisional.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Your provisional income, as defined by the Internal Revenue Service, includes half of your Social Security benefits plus other taxable income and tax-exempt interest.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing provisional
The Unteachables
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The Dawes Act
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The Treaty of Paris (1783)
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