provisional
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Last February, the two sides reached a provisional agreement aimed at reducing US tariffs on Indian products.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
It noted that its death toll was provisional and could rise.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
A judge has now set his provisional trial date to begin in October 2027.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Factory output rose by two percent month-on-month on the back of strong growth in the construction sector, after a 1.2-percent fall in July, according to provisional data from statistics agency Destatis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
“That there’s going to be no transition at all? No interim period for—I don’t know—a provisional government-in-training? Just wham, the Belgians are gone and the Congolese have to run everything on their own?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The Treaty of Paris (1783)
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