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as in possibility
something that might happen
officials in charge of managing the national emergency tried to prepare for every contingent, no matter how improbable
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as in random
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as in probable
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as in dependent
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as in conditional
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Recent Examples of contingent
Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 June 2025
The deal would combine Perplexity and TikTok U.S., and would allow for the U.S. government to own up to 50 percent of the new company contingent upon a future IPO.
—Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 10 June 2025
Philip Ball, Wired News, 8 June 2025
Through a reproducibility lens, students evaluate claims in published studies as contingent on the transparency and soundness of the evidence and analysis on which the claims are based.
—Richard Ball, The Conversation, 5 June 2025
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Noun
As people watched from apartment patios above street level, and as tourists huddled inside hotels, a large contingent of LAPD officers and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies fired several flash bangs that boomed through side streets along with tear gas.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 June 2025
The deal would combine Perplexity and TikTok U.S., and would allow for the U.S. government to own up to 50 percent of the new company contingent upon a future IPO.
—Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 10 June 2025
Adjective
Evolutionary biologists have tended to view each of these transitions as a contingent event.
—Philip Ball, Wired News, 8 June 2025
Through a reproducibility lens, students evaluate claims in published studies as contingent on the transparency and soundness of the evidence and analysis on which the claims are based.
—Richard Ball, The Conversation, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contingent
Noun
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In the late nineties, a delegation of Sahtu Dene travelled to Hiroshima to acknowledge their role in that destruction, despite their own ordeals with cancer and poverty.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Notably, the United States has not ratified the treaty, and the country didn’t send a formal delegation to the conference, per the AP.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 June 2025
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But the defending champions feel no need to panic — even before the team’s upcoming four-game, 10-day roadtrip with the possibility of not having Jonquel Jones available for it.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2025
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In terms of the Flyers’ willingness to move some of their cache of draft picks, Brière didn’t sound all that sure about that possibility, either.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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The prime time talent show is once again ruining our viewing of acts by constantly cutting in reaction shots of the audience, hosts and random people.—
Ticked Off,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 June 2025
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There is also the potential random hijacking of energy cargoes in the Strait, which has precedent.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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The March flight failed in similar fashion, but SpaceX's investigators determined the most probable root cause was a hardware failure in one of the ship's engines, a different failure mode than two months before.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
19 June 2025
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For his next act, Bill Zito tries something else no one thought possible, financially practical or any-which-way probable.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
19 June 2025
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With funding dependent on how many pupils attend, the school’s finances were pressured.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
25 June 2025
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Spouses and dependent children of service members enrolled in SGLI.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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My love for Native natural deodorant is very much conditional.—
Laura Harold,
Outside Online,
14 June 2025
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FedEx applied for a conditional use permit to allow parking of semi-trucks and trailers on a 9-acre lot at 4700 Martin St. in Southeast Fort Worth, near Loop 820.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 June 2025
Noun
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His mother Scarlett and brother Lance flew in for the event to watch Wactor on screen one more time.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
26 June 2025
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Expect gourmet popcorn and chocolates, along with celebration arrangements, popcorn bars and party bags for event planning.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this ottoman offers practical use as extra seating, a footrest or a coffee table paired with a decorative tray.—
Jené Luciani Sena
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FOXNews.com,
20 June 2025
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And there are practical implications: any PEN Centre or any member of a PEN board that doesn’t want to engage with politics that need urgently to be engaged with can simply point to article 2 in defence of its position.—
Kamila Shamsie
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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“Contingent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contingent. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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