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provisional
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provisional (less commonly), provisionary
a postage stamp surcharged during an emergency to alter the stamp's denomination or significance until a new or regular issue is printed

Provisional
of, designating, or relating to the unofficial factions of the IRA and Sinn Féin that became increasingly dominant following a split in 1969. The Provisional movement remained committed to a policy of terrorism until its ceasefires of the mid-1990s


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The geographical and temporal become integral to the narrative itself, the novel's actual reader understanding the narrator's characterization of the embedded "you" as subjective, provisionary, flawed, but (increasingly) aimed at her or him.
President Heuss himself reflected at the end of the decade that "what had begun as a provisionary response, [had] become a foregone conclusion.
LanChile" or "the Company") (NYSE: LFL) Chile's largest domestic and international airline, announces that at an Ordinary Board of Directors' Meeting held on December 26, 2002, the Board authorized payment of a provisionary cash dividend to be charged to the corresponding 2002 earnings in the amount of US$ 0.
 
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