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Recent Examples of provisional As a provisional member, St. Thomas hasn’t received any of those disbursements. John Shipley, Twin Cities, 13 Jan. 2025 All teams wishing to use this provisional must declare this 90 days before the event, a deadline that Trackhouse Racing has already met for Castroneves' Daytona 500 entry. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025 Overdose deaths decreased slightly again in 2023 by 3 percent — but still, more than 100,000 people across the country died from an overdose, according to provisional CDC data. Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025 However, athletes have the right to appeal these provisional suspensions. Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for provisional 

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“Provisional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provisional. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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