contingency plan

noun

: a plan that can be followed if an original plan is not possible for some reason

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Ellison, having just migrated Paramount out of New York last year, didn’t consider this the optimal time for a move but needed a contingency plan so the numbers on the merger made more sense, according to a person familiar with the situation. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2026 For any team aiming lower than Hunter Goodman, Shea Langeliers, Adley Rutschman or Jeffers, Bo Naylor could work as a contingency plan. Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 July 2026 When titles started disappearing from their digital collections, however, those dusty stacks reemerged as both a critical contingency plan and material proof that the media business was changing. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026 Humans near the site must be receptive to the animals, and a community needs a contingency plan in case the beavers engineer too close to human infrastructure. Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for contingency plan

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“Contingency plan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contingency%20plan. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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