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- noun Plural form of
tentative .
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Examples
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The "tentatives," as they are called, will be the subject of about 40 meetings around the state.
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The "tentatives," as they are called, will be the subject of about 40 meetings around the state.
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We know from experience that we can know a great deal about the material properties of things, and so we have lost the sense that, when the movements of the stars were first noted and the abstractions of geometry were first pondered, only intuition could have suggested that knowledge wonderful in kind and scale would be opened by tentatives like these.
Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality 2010
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By the weekend I had over 100 confirmed, and many tentatives for an event on a day of the week that is for most their day of rest.
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By the weekend I had over 100 confirmed, and many tentatives for an event on a day of the week that is for most their day of rest.
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By the weekend I had over 100 confirmed, and many tentatives for an event on a day of the week that is for most their day of rest.
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We know from experience that we can know a great deal about the material properties of things, and so we have lost the sense that, when the movements of the stars were first noted and the abstractions of geometry were first pondered, only intuition could have suggested that knowledge wonderful in kind and scale would be opened by tentatives like these.
Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality Marilynne Robinson 2010
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By the weekend I had over 100 confirmed, and many tentatives for an event on a day of the week that is for most their day of rest.
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Le Lidec semble étonnamment présent quand les présidents se font tuer, ou vivent des tentatives d'assassinat, surtout dans les pays où la France est potentiellement fortement impliquée.
French Ambassador Expelled from Madagascar Because he has Bad Luck? 2008
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Marcel Trudel, Histoire de la Nouvelle-France: Les Vaines tentatives (1524–1563) (Montreal and Paris, 1963); Le Comptoir, 1604–1627 (Montreal, Paris, and Ottawa, 1996); La Seigneurie des Cent Associés, 1627–1663:1.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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