tentative solution

collocation in English

meaningsoftentativeandsolution

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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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solution
noun
uk
/səˈluː.ʃən/us
/səˈluː.ʃən/
the answer to ...
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(Definition oftentativeandsolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The purpose of this article is to offer atentativesolutionto the problem of post hoc criteria and ad hoc prioritizing.
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I will give mytentativesolutionin the latter half of this article.
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This is followed by the establishment of a hypothesis which is in fact atentativesolutionof the problem.
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The most frequent set of pairs is then presented as atentativesolution, which is then attempted.
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An imaginative leap, the "tentativesolution" is improvised, lacking inductive rules to guide it.
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At many levels there is no need for problem recognition or tentative solutions.
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The "tentativesolution" is improvised, an imaginative leap unguided by inductive rules, and the resulting universal law is deductive, an entailed consequence of all, included explanatory considerations.
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In the following, we deal with formalisms which offer partial or tentative solutions for the implementation of such capabilities.
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It is right in this debate to search for some tentative solutions.
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During the intervening period, various tentative solutions, some more and some less satisfactory were proposed.
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