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- noun
temporary character of something
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Examples
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And with that level of timeliness, the provisionality of every word is even more pressing — and the risk of error or the thrill of prescience that much greater.
Why I Blog 2008
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It rejects absolutes and instead, as Mr. Kloppenberg writes, embraces uncertainty, provisionality, and the continuous testing of hypotheses through experimentation.
The Thinker Peter Berkowitz 2010
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If there was a message, it was the slightly underwhelming one that things turned on flux and provisionality.
Rewind TV: Any Human Heart; Mandelson: The Real PM?; JFK: The Making of Modern Politics; Peep Show Phil Hogan 2010
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A writer fully aware of and at ease with the provisionality of his own work is nothing new.
Why I Blog 2008
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Meg: eh, actual genre theorists are okay--since in my experience they tend to emphasize the provisionality of their descriptions, and take them as a starting place, etc.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2010
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A writer fully aware of and at ease with the provisionality of his own work is nothing new.
Why I Blog 2008
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And with that level of timeliness, the provisionality of every word is even more pressing — and the risk of error or the thrill of prescience that much greater.
Why I Blog 2008
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And with that level of timeliness, the provisionality of every word is even more pressing — and the risk of error or the thrill of prescience that much greater.
Why I Blog 2008
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'Faith-based' education is education in the mixture of realism or provisionality with the courage to act, discover and create, to make relations and mend them.
Archbishop - Education based only on reason is incomplete 2009
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'Faith-based' education is education in the mixture of realism or provisionality with the courage to act, discover and create, to make relations and mend them.
Archbishop - Education based only on reason is incomplete 2009
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