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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'tentative step' is correct and usable in written English
It is used when describing a cautious action taken. For example: Before entering the room, she took a tentative step and paused to listen for any sound.
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Alison, 11, took a tentative step.
Yet step by tentative step, move forward it has.
With each tentative step, the undulating walls grow claustrophobically closer.
The Bank of England took a (too tentative) step in this direction last week.
The 2000 DeVille takes a tentative step in this new direction.
Instead, I decided to make this my first tentative step in the word of 3D design.
The Supreme Court took a tentative step toward forbidding such questioning in 1968.
Lone Eagle says it's been a "tentative step toward righting these relationships".
Additionally, the Senate took a tentative step toward closing the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.
"Satin Rouge" quietly but unambiguously applauds each tentative step on her path to a fuller life.
The policy is, at least, a "tentative step in the right direction.
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