tentative
'Shareholders?' I suggested tentatively.
Tentatively, awkwardly, he reaches for the television remote control and taps it.
But while hospitals are starting to embrace technology, many are doing so tentatively.
Meanwhile, the trustees tentatively agreed to spend an additional $920,000 to help administer the project.
It could also be tentatively concluded that the effects of increasing food prices have not had too big an impact on high-income earners.

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Uncertainty

Examples of tentatively

tentatively
We can say, tentatively, that a philosophy of life is a theory of the good conjoined with practical recommendations for attaining the good.
However, the present authors tentatively conclude that diving beetles may emigrate due to density-dependent effects when their populations reach certain but unknown threshold levels.
The existing data tentatively support an association between insecure attachment and disruptive behavior in preschoolers, yet conflicting data exist.
It turns out that answering this question, even tentatively, is as difficult as trying to puzzle out what makes a good song.
Plates were checked daily for bacterial growth, and colonies tentatively identified as bartonella (based on colony morphology) were streaked onto clean plates.
His proposal included allowing a defeasible reasoner to draw conclusions tentatively, sometimes retracting them later, and perhaps reinstating them still later and so on.
Melting is tentatively deduced to have commenced at + 100 km, straddling the garnet-spinel transition.
It thus becomes possible tentatively to describe this modality of proof as resulting from the superposition of two distinct processes.
If so, then the third prediction on the timing of unique syntactic errors is also, though tentatively, supported.
Without further investigation of this phenomenon from other studies, this issue can only be addressed very tentatively.
These are tentatively assumed to be like pentameter lines through the third foot.
In the last section, these observations are tentatively related to distinctive forms of political mobilisation.
Color-sensitive cells were tentatively identified as parvocellular neurons.
Although suggestive, these findings should be considered tentatively in light of the small sample size.
We tentatively conclude that the first criterion of disaggregation is met.
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