provisional
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Last year, America’s total fertility rate fell to 1.57 births per woman, according to a Wall Street Journal calculation using provisional CDC data.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
The team has also submitted a provisional patent for this work.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
The world's glaciers had one of their five worst years on record in 2024/25, according to provisional data, while sea ice at both poles was at or near record lows throughout most of 2025.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
“I’m struck by that in a way the crayon or marker drawing is provisional — there’s no final form to it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
Now, with Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, moral certainty was required to give way to a new sort of temporary knowledge, a purely provisional understanding.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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