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Recent Examples of tentatively
This includes SkyLINE Apartments, a 100-unit complex in Rancho Bernardo that is tentatively set to have its grand opening in early March, according to an Affirmed Housing spokesperson.
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David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Morrissey is tentatively slated to return to the stage on January 10 in San Antonio.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2026
The National Park Service said the Northern Rim is tentatively scheduled to reopen on May 15.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
His next parole hearing is tentatively scheduled for July 2027.
—Conor McGill, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
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As Garfield hesitantly moves forward with his campaign, he is forced to align with Chester Arthur (Nick Offerman), who unexpectedly becomes his running mate, and with the domineering but highly influential Senator Roscoe Conkling (Shea Whigham).—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Tentatively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tentatively. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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