tentative suggestion
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftentativeandsuggestion
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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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suggestion
noun[C or U]
uk/səˈdʒes.tʃən/us/səˈdʒes.tʃən/
an idea, plan, or action that is suggested or the act of ...
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(Definition oftentativeandsuggestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Atentativesuggestionis that the birds and animals may represent totemic creatures associated with patri-clans.
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The student would no longer be making atentativesuggestion, but a peremptory request.
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I now venture to make onetentativesuggestion.
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I offer this as atentativesuggestionfor consideration but not necessarily for decision at this stage.
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There is only one further point should like to make, and it is more by way oftentativesuggestionthan anything else.
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I would make atentativesuggestionthat this would mean sitting in the mornings and rising in the early evenings.
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I throw that out as atentativesuggestion.
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We have been told that it was an informal,tentativesuggestion, and so forth.
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I have received no such representations regarding thetentativesuggestionwhich was recently made.
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I make thistentativesuggestion.
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I understand that thetentativesuggestionis that certain parts shall be manufactured by manufacturers and other parts by the railway workshops which have been manufacturing locomotives in the past.
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Yet current research supports only the most tentative suggestions concerning the processes that underlie these developmental changes.
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I can only offer tentative suggestions for why older workers appear to be more affected by unemployment and non-participation in some countries than others.
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However, a few drugs show some selectivity and allow tentative suggestions on subunit composition to be made.
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The tentative suggestions in this paper go some way toward this goal.
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Rutherford on this basis made thetentativesuggestionthat atomic nuclei are composed of numbers of helium nuclei, each with a charge corresponding to half of its atomic weight.
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We on the outside can only make these tentative suggestions, but we make them with a constructive intent.
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There are tentative suggestions as to which function should be covered by which sub-committee.
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It makes only tentative suggestions, and its object is to assemble the facts.
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