Some smaller studies had previously shown a tentative link between painkillers and kidney cancer.

However, Maitland finds a tentative link between the victims through police computer database searches: all had bought a car from the same dealer.

There's still no evidence supporting QE, only tentative causal links.

This study discovered a tentative link between warmer winter weather lagged one year and Lyme disease incidence.

But at best it had been a tentative link, nothing like the bond among clones, whose mothers, aunts, and grandmothers shared both genes and common upbringing, stretching back generations.

The scenarios are usually very vague and highly amusing, sometimes bearing a tentative link to the theme for the weekend.

There were tentative links made to the secretive Swiss financier Otto Gessler, though Gessler's spokesman dismissed it all as malicious lies and gossip.

British scientists announced last week there was evidence for only a tentative link between mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

The Guild had tested hundreds of their Navigators before finding two that could establish a tentative direct link - through telepathy, melange-fostered prescience, or some other method, to be determined.

Despite the tentative links that appear to exist between the cases, there are puzzling differences.