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Example sentences for: preliminary

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When the preliminary assessment indicates that the data are sufficiently reliable, use the data.
Foer also neglected to mention that Mann's credibility is bolstered by the FBI's decision, after a preliminary investigation of her charges, to refer them to the Justice Department.
A preliminary query by taxon name obtained all available nucleotide sequences from that taxon, then the Limits option excluded ESTs, STSs (sequence-tagged sites), GSSs (genome survey sequences), working draft sequences, and patented sequences from the query set.
We believe these preliminary data support more extensive exploration of identified themes.
cDNA sequence was submitted to GenBank with a preliminary annotation of the longest ORF and a gene assignment based on a high BLASTN similarity score to the Release 2 genome annotations.