provisory

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My feelings of safety and belonging are still highly provisory.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2020

The airline seats are arranged in a group and function as a provisory sofa for the volunteers.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2015

Still there remains an expression in the Arr�t, that it is provisory only.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

The resources of the exchequer were at that time so scanty that Orejon ordered the provisory use of fagots in the construction of the fortifications of Havana.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

To enact which provisory character, so unspeakably important, might its whole faculties but have sufficed; and so a peaceable, gradual, well-conducted Abdication and Domine-dimittas have been the issue!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas