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Recent Examples of tentatively
Real yields are still high, fiscal deficits remain historically large, and Fed rhetoric has only tentatively shifted toward easing.
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Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
So, in 1999, English football tentatively dipped its toes into the water.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
The site for the game in Honolulu is tentatively at New Aloha Stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2028.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
While the Roddy situation has given Slough House its own angle on the Abbotsfield massacre, the Park is conducting its official investigation, with Emma Flyte tentatively taking the lead.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
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Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
So, in 1999, English football tentatively dipped its toes into the water.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
The site for the game in Honolulu is tentatively at New Aloha Stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2028.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
While the Roddy situation has given Slough House its own angle on the Abbotsfield massacre, the Park is conducting its official investigation, with Emma Flyte tentatively taking the lead.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tentatively
Adverb
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His crossing has often been a source of frustration, sometimes ballooning the ball too often, taking too long to put it into the area or cutting back on himself hesitantly.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The clip shows the massive American bully hesitantly backing away from a tiny, energetic puppy.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That test soon divides matter, even for a far from sensitive ear, into what reads well & what reads tamely, haltingly, jerkily, lopsidedly, top-heavily, or otherwise badly.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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As the world lost its CO2 blanket over this age of mammals, though, and the world chilled, grasslands, having invented a new form of photosynthesis adapted to this drier, lower-CO2 world, haltingly but inexorably took over much of the Earth.—
Peter Brannen,
Big Think,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Tentatively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tentatively. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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