provisory

My feelings of safety and belonging are still highly provisory.

Dickinson’s dashes are ubiquitous in all but the earliest editions of her poems, but fewer editions reproduce her plus signs, which mark an unfinished or provisory line, later to be filled in.

Through the car window, we spot trees scarred by artillery and provisory barracks made of car tires.

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

A provisory government was established, entitled the Government of the National Defence.