tentative answer
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftentativeandanswer
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tentative
adjective
uk/ˈten.tə.tɪv/us/ˈten.t̬ə.t̬ɪv/
(of a plan or idea) not certain or agreed, or (of a suggestion or action) said or done in a careful but uncertain way because you do not know if you ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition oftentativeandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Mytentativeanswer, based on the very limited cross-cultural evidence, is that they can.
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If one interprets inefficient complex motion analysis as manifestation of impaired cognitive coordination, then thetentativeansweris yes.
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The question of which factors make two language systems penetrable can only receive atentativeanswerhere.
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Thetentativeanswergiven then was: extremely fast.
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We think that only a history of thought that does not hesitate to offer at least atentativeanswerto questions of this kind deserves autonomy within economic discourse.
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I gave atentativeanswerto those questions.
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I think that before the matter is brushed aside we should have atentativeanswerto the effect that this proposal will be discussed.
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A hypothesis is the least certain and is essentially atentativeanswerto a particular question, often put forward so that it can be tested experimentally.
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In general terms, tentative answers to these three questions are available in the literature.
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The emergence of a discipline may be perceived, then, as a sequence of tentative answers.
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While answering these questions is not the main purpose of this paper, proposing some tentative answers helps support the hypothesis just presented.
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We have conjectured some tentative answers to such questions but have not yet implemented them.
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Let us return to our four initial questions from section 2, provide some tentative answers, and discuss policy implications.
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At the present stage of research, however, it is only possible to offer tentative answers.
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Two tentative answers can be suggested.
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I now turn briefly to some tentative answers.
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Russell was a believer in the scientific method, that science reaches only tentative answers, that scientific progress is piecemeal, and attempts to find organic unities were largely futile.
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