Sample Sentences for
provisional
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    Not all provisional ballots will be counted.
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    The committee approved a provisional budget while waiting for final numbers.
    provisional = temporary or not final
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    No interim period for—I don't know—a provisional government-in-training?†  (source)
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    Provisional.†  (source)
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    He believed it provisionally here in this room located below street level in a frame house on a weekday afternoon in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.†  (source)
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    But sometimes other arrangements can be made if we get provisional approval, especially in a situation like yours.†  (source)
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    By the way, Jarvis, we arranged the funeral provisionally for tomorrow afternoon, after a service in the Parkwold Church.†  (source)
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    I'm not sure if it was for Tommy's benefit, or for any onlookers', but I'd kept my posture looking very provisional, and at one point made a move to carry on with my stroll.†  (source)
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    This note is made provisionally, in order to explain in part why it is now so difficult to give any clear description of her.†  (source)
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    Second, we have arranged for a provisional government.†  (source)
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    Provisionally at least, your guilt is seen as proven.†  (source)
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    By dinnertime Luna had a government to replace co-opted provisional government—i.†  (source)
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    D'Artagnan did reflect, and resolved to thrash Planchet provisionally; which he did with the conscientiousness that d'Artagnan carried into everything.†  (source)
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