Tentative in a sentence as an adjective

That's where things like tentative views and Summary Judgments come in.

They're giving a tentative judgement of the outcome of the case.

It probably won't wind up laid out exactly as I expect, but here is my tentative plan:1.

It was a tentative in-court statement in response to an inquiry by one of the lawyers.

This decade sees the first tentative missions beyond cislunar space.

That conclusion is tentative next to "actively managed mutual funds are a poor investment vehicle.

But it seems unfair to very non-tentatively accuse EJ of lying when the facts seem to be on her side at best and on nobody's side at worst.

The "We have a winner" makes me expect something substantive, but this post is just the author rambling about a tentative choice he made.

Considering how often past dietary advice has been wrong, it seems like this topic could use a little more tentativeness.

The "tentative view" that Judge Cote formed by reading the pleadings was a way to tell the Defendant: you sure seem guilty based on the evidence you and the government provided.

I agree with NNQ that it's very troubling to bandy around diagnostic labels like this, and deem people to be dangerous, just because of a tentative probabilistic diagnosis.

"Associations of candidate genes with psychological traits and other traits studied in the social sciences should be viewed as tentative until they have been replicated in multiple large samples.

The tentative winner at the time was using some god awful hand-cooked branchless code for min/max that was completely defeating the compiler's attempts at generating the simple and optimal cmp r0, r1; mov r2, r1; cmovg r1, r0; cmovg r0, r2 instruction sequence.

Although ********* remains illegal under federal law, the Justice Department has given a tentative approval for Colorado and Washington to move ahead with regulating *********.

“Tesla USA engineers have seen a tentative of hacking on my car.”, “can be related to industrial espionage and advised me to stop investigation, to not void the warranty”.So long as you don't cause any damage they can't void your warranty in the US thanks to the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act.

Tentative definitions

adjective

under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

See also: probationary provisional provisionary

adjective

unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions"

See also: doubtful