How to Use provisional in a Sentence

provisional

adjective

• The government has given provisional approval for the use of the new drug.
• The provisional status would run two years and could be renewed for a total of eight years.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 26 Oct. 2023
• For me, most of the time that means a provisional patent application (PPA).
  — Stephen Key, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• To Rahm's relief, the ball from his first tee shot was located and the provisional tee shot was abandoned.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• This brings the provisional total number of UK arrivals so far this year to 2,983.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
• A week after the election, Helm showed up to a board meeting to defend her provisional ballot and beg for her vote to count.
  — Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
• That order was blocked by the Texas Supreme Court, and the late-cast provisional ballots were segregated from the total.
  — Jonathan Weisman Stuart A. Thompson Michael Wines Ava Sasani Rick Rojas Ava Sasani Nate Cohn Maggie Astor J. David Goodman Emily Cochrane Maggie Haberman Annie Karni Emily Cochrane Jesse McKinley Annie Karni Simon Romero Michael Gold Reid Epstein Ava Sasani Liam Stack Jennifer Medina Catie Edmondson Reid J. Epstein Catie Edmondson Trip Gabriel Stephanie Lai Jazmine Ulloa Nick Corasaniti Neil Vigdo, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• In prior years, about 70% of provisional ballots have counted in the county.
  — Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Amazon reached a provisional agreement to settle to case on May 31.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 July 2023
• The order was provisional, leaving the regulation in place while a challenge moves forward in the courts.
  — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• At an inquest into the high school students' deaths on Wednesday, a coroner said the provisional cause of death was drowning, according to the BBC.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• Voters need to be registered to vote with an up-to-date address no later than Oct. 16 to avoid having to cast a provisional ballot.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• On Tuesday, the recount of the mail-in and provisional ballots began, but was called off when Jones’ team was satisfied that all had been done to verify the election.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Nov. 2022
• Mail-in ballots, Election Day drop-offs and provisional ballots take longer to count and verify.
  — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2022
• As of last year, Virginia accepts mail-in and provisional ballots until noon three days after the election.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• The court's order was a provisional victory for the 19 states that had sought to keep Title 42 in place, saying it was needed to prevent a surge of border crossings.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2022
• Rather, the provisional measures aim to prevent the situation from getting worse while the case proceeds.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The court’s order was a provisional victory for the 19 states that had sought to keep Title 42 in place, saying that states often must bear the brunt of impacts from a surge in border crossings.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• The board will hold a public hearing on a request for a waiver related to the provisional appointment process for a vacant board seat.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• According to that provisional data, suicide deaths reached a record high in 2022 but decreased among children and young adults.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
• In November, the state put the facility on a provisional six-month license.
  — Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• The trend has gone down slightly in 2022, based on provisional data, but overdose deaths are one of the leading reasons for the country's falling life expectancy rate.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
• If the clerk was unable to confirm the DOD number before an election, the ballot would be considered provisional.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• Rather, judges will in the coming days consider South Africa’s call for provisional measures — interim steps aimed at stopping things from getting worse while the case plays out.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• Part of this provisional quality is a function of technique.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Election officials later stopped their provisional count and switched to a final count.
  — Nick Perry, ajc, 16 Dec. 2022
• But no matter what, keep this important fact in mind: all knowledge in science, up to and including the most important laws, is provisional.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
• While the European Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement, the deal hasn't been adopted, or written into law, yet.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• But for those without permanent homes, like the thousands of migrants staying in provisional shelters, today was a reminder of just how temporary their place in the city is.
  — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2023
• In December, the bloc passed a provisional agreement forcing companies like Deliveroo, Uber, and Bolt to recognize 5.5 million gig workers as employees.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024