Sentence examples for tentatively put from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "tentatively put" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use it when expressing an idea or opinion that is uncertain or not definitive in some way. For example, "That could possibly be true, but only tentatively put."

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I tentatively put up my tent – the fifth one up, I think, and put my energy into helping to set up the Tent City University.

Finally, she speared the tofu with a fork and tentatively put it to her lips.

"I'll tentatively put forward Louis Andriessen, whose pungent De Staat is widely considered a minimalist masterpiece".

Some estimates, by Indian relief organizations working from fragmentary surveys of neighborhoods and schools, have tentatively put the number of orphans at 3,000, and even more.

Counting the financial toll of Irene will take time, but Kinetic Analysis Corp, a consulting firm, tentatively put it at up to $7bn £4.26bnn) billion nationally, with insured losses of between $3bn and $4bn.

In a scene straight out of Legally Blonde, the then 19-year-old Martha tentatively put up her hand and said that the same thing happened all the time in humans.

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The conclusion we are tentatively putting forward is that feathers were present in all dinosaurs".

As Lamb tentatively puts it, the bill has "not directly addressed the future availability of grants such as ours.

Tentatively putting our hands inside the holes, feeling the residual warmth that was about the temperature of a sauna, provided a little thrill.

As a rule, informational independence is not indicated syntactically in English.[93] Methodological consequences of this fact are discussed in Hintikka (1990), where he tentatively puts forward the Syntactic Silence Thesis, according to which sufficiently radical cross-categorical phenomena are not likely to be marked syntactically in natural languages.

President Barack Obama has been weak and ineffectual, but he has attempted to better the economy, even as he has moved too tentatively, and put too much faith in the self-healing powers of the market.

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