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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    Second, we have arranged for a provisional government.†  (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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    Provisional.†  (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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    But sometimes other arrangements can be made if we get provisional approval, especially in a situation like yours.†  (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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    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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    Provisionally at least, your guilt is seen as proven.†  (source)
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    Florentino Ariza, for his part, had received provisional appointment as First Assistant at the telegraph office, and Lotario Thugut wanted him to head the office when he left to direct the School of Telegraphy and Magnetism, which he expected to do the following year.†  (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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