on (the) condition that
idiom
: only if
She spoke on the condition that she not be identified.
He taught me the trick on condition that I never tell anyone else how to do it.
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Hackman’s estate had previously secured a temporary order to seal any records related to the investigation, but a judge later overturned that ruling on the condition that no photos or videos showed the couple’s bodies.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2025
Parents agreed to allow their children to speak to the Times on condition that only first names be published.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Ruth, who spoke on the condition that her full name be withheld because of the sensitive nature of her work as a family advocate for struggling New Yorkers, lived most of her life in an apartment in the Bronx with her family.
—Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
But after a more than hour-long closed session on Thursday, the council agreed privately to open the job to all who might want to apply, two sources with knowledge of those deliberations said on the condition that their names not be used in discussing those private talks.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2025
Parents agreed to allow their children to speak to the Times on condition that only first names be published.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Ruth, who spoke on the condition that her full name be withheld because of the sensitive nature of her work as a family advocate for struggling New Yorkers, lived most of her life in an apartment in the Bronx with her family.
—Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
But after a more than hour-long closed session on Thursday, the council agreed privately to open the job to all who might want to apply, two sources with knowledge of those deliberations said on the condition that their names not be used in discussing those private talks.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
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“On (the) condition that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20%28the%29%20condition%20that. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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