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"is only tentative" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something is uncertain or provisional. For example, "His offer to buy the car is only tentative, and may change depending on the condition it is in."
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Previous case-based research has identified alternative roles for designers in NPD, but there is only tentative evidence over such roles' contribution to NPD outcomes.
Thus the above discussion is only tentative.
This proposal is only tentative and it would have to be examined and evaluated to see whether the modelling of lexis in terms of context as suggested here may offer opportunities to account for shifting lexico-semantics.
Gravity Guidance's Martin, for instance, contended that the new research is only tentative and preliminary--and, moreover, that it is contradicted by the experience of inversion partisans.
Therefore, this result needs replication and is only tentative.
This discussion of regulation is only tentative since EPA's Regulatory Activities Workgroup continues to study the issue.
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Therefore, the values presented here are only tentative estimates.
There are only tentative signs that home prices are near a bottom.
However, that relationship was considered by its authors to be only tentative, because it was based on cross-sectional data rather than longitudinal data.
But the figures are only tentative and may be artificially low because of the unwillingness or inability of sufferers to seek help over the Christmas holidays.
Cardinal Law testified that despite his public statements suggesting that a settlement had been reached, he meant that the settlement was only tentative.
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is only approximate
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is only true
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is only mild
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