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There's anger here, but also a new, tentative, exploratory spirit.
The three cited the works of other researchers who had taken tentative, exploratory steps in the same direction.
Its tentative, exploratory nature makes sense since it's mostly concerned with seeding long-term change.
Much of the other 'evidence' relating to this research question is tentative, exploratory, even incidental to the authors' main objectives, and is therefore still subject to confirmation or falsification with less biased study designs in larger samples.
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Much of the work in the first rooms at Dulwich feels tentative and exploratory, even bitty.
Both approaches present the music as a series of dialogues, with the solo writing more tentative and exploratory and the ensemble writing more vigorous and assertive.
There's something tentative and exploratory about her, an eagerness to try out an idea or an attitude, which Linklater tenderly draws on.
While Grice viewed his ideas as tentative and exploratory, followers have taken the theory to be well established.
Meaning, in the art of Boback Emad, is unstable, tentative and exploratory.
"His acting was so physical, so exploratory, tentative, wary – that we could sense with him, feel him pull back at the slightest hint of rebuff," Kael said of that role.
In the early years of the first Obama administration, the Augean stable of his predecessor's mistakes required a major cleaning, resulting in an approach that was nimble and exploratory, with tentative steps taken in many areas.
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