tentative

In a sentence

Six example sentences with tentative, each labelled with its topic.

• The team published a tentative figure for the comet's mass, warning that new radar passes could revise it.

  Science

• Our itinerary stayed tentative until the ferry company confirmed whether the winter crossings would run at all.

  Travel

• The founders set a tentative launch date for March, knowing the payment integration might push everything into summer.

  Startups

• The two parties reached a tentative agreement on the budget, subject to a vote that neither side could promise to win.

  Politics

• The analyst gave a tentative price target and warned that a single earnings miss would send her back to the spreadsheet.

  Finance

• Her first tentative notes on the cello wobbled, but by the end of the month the scale ran clean.

  Music

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• impose
• ethnic
• overlap
• issuing
• concluding
• conventional
• innovative
• reaction
• credited
• energy
• contract
• contradiction