preliminary conclusion

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meaningsofpreliminaryandconclusion

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preliminary
adjective[before noun]
uk
/prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/
us
/prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/
coming before a more important action or event, especially introducing or preparing ...
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conclusion
noun
uk
/kənˈkluː.ʒən/
us
/kənˈkluː.ʒən/
the final part ...
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Thispreliminaryconclusionmay or may not stand up to further investigation.
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Considering depression scores as an indirect measure of grief, we drew apreliminaryconclusionthat stronger feelings of grief are related to greater memory decline.
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Let us see whether our second question in this section throws doubt on thispreliminaryconclusion.
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Further investigations and larger amounts of data will eventually confirm thispreliminaryconclusion.
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Apreliminaryconclusionis that discussing the projects in an expert meeting may lead to greater consensus.
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As adjective+noun agreement is not studied in this paper, this is apreliminaryconclusion.
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To date there has been aa no effort to sample regionally anomalous situations of this kind, so even apreliminaryconclusionis not possible.
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A comparison of the changes in the three countries' policy tools over the last two decades leads to thepreliminaryconclusionthat the countries have become more similar.
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We wish to reach apreliminaryconclusionas soon as possible.
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That would be apreliminaryconclusionfrom such data.
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I have not yet arrived at apreliminaryconclusion.
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Thepreliminaryconclusionof that report is that fishing has become more hazardous.
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Ourpreliminaryconclusionis that the commission's advice on this matter seems to be sound.
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That was police activity whereas this is thepreliminaryconclusionof a local authority.
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That is mypreliminaryconclusion.
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That was theirpreliminaryconclusion.
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In this article we concentrate on presenting our preliminary conclusions for the period after 1650, focusing on the prime statistical indicators.
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The case-study composition was thus an iterative process, in which the investigators' understanding was shaped by self-criticism of preliminary conclusions.
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This paper sketches a theoretical basis for that project, and offers some preliminary conclusions.
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