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as in possibility
something that might happen
agencies trying to provide for every contingency in a national emergency
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as in provision
something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends
an offer to buy the house, with the contingency that it pass inspection
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Recent Examples of contingency
Avalanche decoupling offers something essential for effective contingency planning: an affirmative vision for how the United States would sustain and lead the international trading system if China forced a geopolitical rupture.
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Eyck Freymann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2025
Just like at the height of the pandemic, buyers are waiving contingencies and bidding properties sharply higher.
—USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Instead, the case of Mahler-Werfel dramatizes how opportunity, environment, and other contingencies shape artistic careers.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
All of Brighton’s biggest sales have taken place in the summer, when there is more time for contingency planning — Yves Bissouma to Tottenham Hotspur in 2022, Moises Caicedo and Robert Sanchez to Chelsea, and Alexis MacAllister to Liverpool in 2023.
—Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
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Eyck Freymann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2025
Just like at the height of the pandemic, buyers are waiving contingencies and bidding properties sharply higher.
—USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Instead, the case of Mahler-Werfel dramatizes how opportunity, environment, and other contingencies shape artistic careers.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
All of Brighton’s biggest sales have taken place in the summer, when there is more time for contingency planning — Yves Bissouma to Tottenham Hotspur in 2022, Moises Caicedo and Robert Sanchez to Chelsea, and Alexis MacAllister to Liverpool in 2023.
—Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contingency
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What makes the possibility of Ovechkin breaking Gretzky’s goal record this season so special is that Ovechkin would be doing it at the same seasonal rate as Gretzky did.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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Ordinary people have little knowledge that such a possibility even exists.—
Bill Hamilton,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Mar. 2025
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The United States’ treaties with China and India have no arbitration provisions, so the U.S. competent authority could simply decline to agree to relieve double taxation.—
Ryan Finley,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Every key weapons request, whether F-16s, Abrams tanks, or long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, was first denied, then delayed, and then provided with the provision that they not be used against targets in Russia.—
Jamie McIntyre,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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For your final evening on Grand Turk, make a reservation at Secret Garden, an intimate restaurant at the Salt Raker Inn where every sunset is a social event.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
10 Mar. 2025
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Coordinate Non-Event Marketing Integrated marketing keeps the event benefits going.—
Karolyn Raphael,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Visiting production centers in person is a crucial part of ensuring his clients goods will meet the USMCA requirements, which also include paying workers $16 an hour on the books and abiding by a slew of intellectual property rules.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
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What To Know Polizzi had applied for a waiver from the building permit requirement in April 2024 but has not received a response from LADBS.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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Primary or current beneficiaries benefit from the trust now, and they can be followed by contingent, successor, or alternate beneficiaries.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Kyiv backed the plan on Tuesday, contingent on Moscow’s agreement.—
Jenni Reid,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2025
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By contrast, as trade expert and non-partisan Growth Commission Chairman Shanker Singham explains, the EU conditions market access on accepting the EU regulatory system and EU standards.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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The news came in a Holy See press office update issued on the 88-year-old's condition Sunday morning.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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We won’t be bullied or intimidated by frivolous cases.—
Julia Jacobs,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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When people hear about large groups of people in class action cases, those people are typically identified in the discovery process, where the business will produce information and documents identifying people who have been similarly harmed.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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The plan also included a stipulation for Ukraine to be armed after a peace deal to deter future invasions.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Their agreement, or joint stipulation of dismissal in legal terms, was filed on Monday.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Contingency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contingency. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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