tentative explanation

At that moment Aradia arrived; it was she who provided a tentative explanation.

Norton had puzzled over this a good deal, and had arrived at a tentative explanation.

The science detectives began forming a tentative explanation.

Discussion: including any inferences resulting from statistical tests together with tentative explanations and unresolved questions.

From these gathered data, the analyst may proceed with the scientific method by generating tentative explanations for a subject event or phenomenon.

A tentative explanation for state-dependent recall is the use of the physiological state as a contextual cue.

Jarrow and Rudd have advanced two tentative explanations of these apparent discrepancies:

A flood of correspondence came in, but when all the tentative explanations and suggestions had been winnowed none of us was any wiser than before.

The tentative explanation came to be accepted by the men that they were victims of what they called 'the Northern Ireland Office's numbers game'.

A tentative explanation of knock is suggested, which is designed to agree with the indications of the high-speed photographs and the time-pressure records.

"That theory provides at least a tentative explanation for why there's Fortier DNA present," said Patel.

Their tentative explanation is that a tornado somehow sorts out particles of different masses - debris versus raindrops, for example - and arranges them in separate bands.

You may have been puzzled as to how you managed to get out of one 'bubble' and into the next, but I daresay you cobbled together a tentative explanation."

"A Tentative Explanation of Cosmological Red Shift", Paired and Interacting Galaxies, NASA Conference Publication 3098, P.491.

The answers will be hotly debated for years, but some tentative explanations are emerging for what is known as the contagion effect: the tendency of a financial crisis to spread and "infect" other nations.

I think, where for the time being we must admit that the thinlegs' ways of thought are too alien for us to interpret, and that any tentative explanation we may offer is bound to be utodo-morphic.

It is merely a tentative explanation of the name Quatuor Coronati, a name given to a group of really authenticated martyrs who were buried and venerated in the catatomb of Sts.

I was hoping that Mr. Brooks could give a tentative explanation, but he ends with these humble words: "This is a moment to feel deeply bad, for the dead and for those of us who have no explanation."

That left one final mystery that the team felt should have at least a tentative explanation before they approached Calazar: How could the Ents have become aware that an Exoverse existed, and have managed to escape into it?

A Tentative Explanation A spate of fresh theories has been offered to account for the murders, many of them variants of earlier theories that the children are the agents of a foreign power or have been brainwashed by advanced hypnotic drugs.