These figures don't yield a whole lot of fine-grained conclusions, but they do suggest a few tentative hypotheses:

There were possibilities only, tentative hypotheses later disproved, unsatisfactory animal-testing results.

Colin mentioned Salianus' opinion as one tentative new hypothesis for the source of the name.

Evolution is no longer a mere tentative hypothesis.

What begins as a tentative hypothesis gradually becomes a more coherent body of ideas.

Without extensive research I cannot offer anything beyond a tentative hypothesis at this point, and that is stress-induced shock.

Its tentative hypothesis is that there has been some unintended malfunction at some point.

At this time the topology shown should be considered a tentative hypothesis.

And he formed various tentative hypotheses about the business being discussed.

"We've agreed on a tentative hypothesis," he explained.