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tentative

[ten-tuh-tiv] / ˈtɛn tə tɪv /




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Wall Street stocks moved sideways early Wednesday in a tentative follow-up to a record-setting session after good US economic data.

From Barron's

Those efforts paid off this year, with a tentative truce in a trade war with the United States reached when China relaxed stringent export controls on rare earths.

From Barron's

It doesn’t look dynamic; it looks tentative, as if he’s afraid to settle into a line of thought.

From The Wall Street Journal

With Bitcoin now up a bit overnight and up modestly over the past 24 hours, it explains the tentative rebound in equities exposed to digital assets.

From Barron's

But the tentative rebound from those Sunday lows may give some for investors.

From Barron's