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The company will perform for three weeks each winter for five years in exchange for a financial lifeline, tentatively agreed to be distributed over the next eight years, The New York Times reported.
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Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The film is tentatively due to start shooting this November on location in Manchester.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
When the tiny plants suddenly gained confidence, though, and shot up toward the sky as trees some 50 million years later in the Devonian Period, the first forests tentatively spread across the world, and fire came into its own.
—Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
People like Cafe Roze co-owner Julia Jaksic, who with business partner Owen Gibler, will open a new bar tentatively called Roza in a 1,400-square-foot Arcade space later this year.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The film is tentatively due to start shooting this November on location in Manchester.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
When the tiny plants suddenly gained confidence, though, and shot up toward the sky as trees some 50 million years later in the Devonian Period, the first forests tentatively spread across the world, and fire came into its own.
—Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
People like Cafe Roze co-owner Julia Jaksic, who with business partner Owen Gibler, will open a new bar tentatively called Roza in a 1,400-square-foot Arcade space later this year.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tentatively
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Adam asks Conrad to take care of his brother, and Conrad hesitantly agrees.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
3 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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It’s haltingly played, like a child plucking out the notes, to emphasize John’s deep connection to his daughter.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 Aug. 2025
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