Ronnie Dunn

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.

American Musician

J. J. Redick

I think anytime you have any sort of injury, you know I've come back from a pulled hamstring in college one time, foot injuries. The movement that causes the initial jolt of pain you always kind of are tentative when you have to make that movement, especially as you kind of build back up.

American Athlete

David Whyte

Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

English Poet

Ivanka Trump

People sometimes approach me tentatively or suspiciously because of my father's reputation as a world-class negotiator, as if they think I'm about to take advantage of them. As if I know something I'm not letting on.

American Businesswoman

George Wald

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

American Scientist

Francis Crick

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

English Scientist

Bjorn Lomborg

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

Danish Scientist

Jeff Grubb

Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

American Author

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Jamaican Athlete

Matt Cassel

Use 'tentative' to indicate plans may alter; they're a starting point.

Expect Changes

'Tentative' describes something before final confirmation, like a draft.

Pre-Agreement

Emphasizes that the result is uncertain and open to discussion or change.

Questionable Outcome

Indicates an action is done with hesitation or uncertainty.

Lack of Confidence

Often used to describe early stages of learning or trying something new.

First Attempts

Use when progress is slow and cautious, often due to uncertainty.

Gradual Progress

 click the tentative button! It's okay, you're allowed, that's why it's there. It's right next to the accept button. Or the maybe button, or whatever button is there for you not to accept immediately. Then, get in touch with the person who asked you to the meeting. Tell them you're very excited to support their work, ask them what the goal of the meeting is,

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 should tend to have more favorable conditions for the existence of intelligent beings such as ourselves. But what if that tentative cosmological connection between entropy and intelligence hints at a deeper relationship? What if intelligent behavior doesn't just correlate with the production of long-term entropy,

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 analysis of our problems we know what the problems are but the interesting thing for me has just been the fact that you know you have all these digital cheaters out there and they lose our place in our learning everybody else oh there's been that we're not we're at this point we're not tentative about the

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 Democrats are tentatively celebrating, Republicans are blowing their collective tops, lawyers are busier than ever, ballot-counters are still hard at it, and demographers are desperately trying to understand who voted, for whom, where and why. Much has been said of the Latino vote in this election,

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 did you open for life and while Craig is very excited because we managed to find ourselves a heartbeat in the African wilderness this afternoon and well what a beautiful animal it is indeed it could whoo and while she is also quite tentative of moving through the thickets

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 take for them to flash and become adults I'll give you that answer at one point on the drive today but tentatively our gas is anything from six months to one year they fledge they'll have wings and they'll be you know almost independent but most important as much as they

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 the reviews of general very tentative around that and it's a scribbling the cat was actually my effort to address it and say no no no you must understand I wasn't some innocent there are no innocent some more the first casualty of war wasn't truth its innocence then

Alexandra Fuller: Born...

 was our humility -- was the tentative nature of our engagement. We criticized people a lot in Bosnia for being quite slow to take on war criminals. We criticized them for being quite slow to return refugees. But that slowness, that caution,

Rory Stewart: Time to...

 He was convicted of rape, kidnapping and robbery, and served seven years of a 47 year sentence. Troy's picture was in a photo array that the victim tentatively had some draw toward, but said he looked too old.

Taryn Simon photographs...

 at about six weeks they're ready to take their first tentative steps outside and by eight weeks they're exploring their new world in earnest

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