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preliminarily
adverb
formaluk /prɪˈlɪm.ɪˈnər.əl.i/ us /prɪˌlɪm.əˈner.əl.i/
in a way that gives a first answer or decision, but not a final one:
The bill was preliminarily approved by the House on Monday.
Preliminarily, an official said the damage did not look as bad as they had feared at first.
By the next morning, the document had been preliminarily translated.
The president has been preliminarily briefed on some of what will happen tomorrow.
Investigators have preliminarily concluded that the crash was caused by human error, not by mechanical malfunction.
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