All 6 Uses
tentative
in
Atlas Shrugged
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- He had stopped tentatively, but she did not answer.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- He was afraid to remain by Francisco's side and afraid to let him loose among the guests, He backed a few tentative steps away, but Francisco followed him, smiling.†
Chpt 2.2
- There was the goal of all those con men of library and classroom, who sold their revelations as reason, their "instincts" as science, their cravings as knowledge, the goal of all the savages of the non-objective, the non-absolute, the relative, the tentative, the probable-the savages who, seeing a farmer gather a harvest, can consider it only as a mystic phenomenon unbound by the law of causality and created by the farmer's omnipotent whim, who then proceed to seize the farmer, to chain him, to deprive him of tools, of seeds, of water, of soil, to push him out on a barren rock and to command: "Now grow a harvest and feed us!"†
Chpt 3.5
- "Well, after all," said Philip, in the angry and cautious tone of a tentative threat, "I could have my friends assign me to a job here and compel you to accept it!"†
Chpt 3.5
- Lillian's head was poised to bow in greeting, with the tentative hint of a smile on her lips, half-timid, half-brash.†
Chpt 3.6
- "It seems to me," said Chick Morrison, his voice tentatively helpful, ' "that people of nobler spiritual nature, you know what I mean, people of ....of ....well, of mystical insight"—he paused, as if waiting to be slapped, but no one moved, so he repeated firmly—"yes, of mystical insight, won't go for that speech.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(tentative as in: said it tentatively) done in a careful or unsure way (indicating a lack of confidence in exactly what will happen)
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(2)
(tentative as in: a tentative plan) subject to change (likely or possibly going to change)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)