How to Use precondition in a Sentence

precondition

1 of 2 noun

• They insist on a guarantee as a precondition of the deal.
• As a precondition, the two sides would have to agree to a stand-still cease-fire.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• And long-term, bat oils and droppings can stain a home and create preconditions for mold.
  — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• These changes are the preconditions for lower rates.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
• The patient was young, had no preconditions, and was very fit and very aggressive in their health.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2020
• An essential precondition for healing is first to cleanse the wound.
  — WSJ, 24 Jan. 2021
• Of course, a traumatic childhood is not a precondition for making great art.
  — Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• Then McGill Johnson talked about faith as a precondition of hope.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
• That's why the precondition was scrapped in China's new civil code, Xia said.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
• Equality is a precondition for social progress, but equality alone is not enough.
  — Dennis Jaffe, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• The White House quickly shifted away from its preconditions for the meeting.
  — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2025
• Some effort at persuasion seemed to be an accepted precondition for war.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
• Those who forget to navigate to the station might have to wait a few minutes — and will remember to precondition next time.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Free speech, in other words, is not a precondition of political freedom, but a result.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2019
• Christ does not set expertise as a precondition to following Him.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 18 Sep. 2021
• Biden spent much of this year demanding that Congress raise the debt ceiling without preconditions.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 June 2023
• Breyer tossed that argument and went on to disagree that the precondition was satisfied.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
• Zelensky has agreed to meet Putin just about anywhere but Moscow, with no preconditions.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
• But a necessary precondition for Fujimori’s actions was a sense that the public would back him up.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 8 Nov. 2018
• Shah treats daytime exertion as the precondition for nighttime rest, rather than the opposite.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 15 May 2026
• In this way, his relentless self-alienation seems to serve as both a hindrance to solidarity and a precondition to it.
  — Marella Gayla, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
• Thus, when people ask for a blessing, an exhaustive moral analysis should not be placed as a precondition for conferring it.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• Medicine must classify in order to know and to act; standardization is its formal precondition.
  — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
• Well, Obama took a lot of heat, remember, for meeting people without preconditions and all that.
  — Fox News, 1 June 2018
• Her physical differences helped give her the sense of outsiderness that seems almost a precondition for the writing life.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Tehran also reiterated a list of preconditions for the talks.
  — Azhar Sukri,kevin Breuninger,terri Cullen, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026
• Government reform is the precondition for progress on everything else.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
• The president has offered to talk to the Iranians without preconditions about a whole range of issues.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2019
• Trump is fully capable of spinning a narrative that would claim one of those preconditions, even while having no resemblance to the truth.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
• The first step—which could be agreed in days—is an immediate cease-fire along current front lines, without any preconditions or promises beyond starting talks.
  — Miriam Sapiro, Time, 15 Aug. 2025

precondition

2 of 2 verb

• We're preconditioned not to love it.
  — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 June 2026
• There are also two preconditioning modes, one for the track and another for drag racing.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
• Use preconditioning when plugged in if your EV supports it.
  — Danny Smith, USA Today, 29 May 2026
• But the deal fell apart amid a boycott by Palestinian leaders who wanted to precondition the aid on a two-state plan.
  — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2020
• There are also two battery preconditioning modes to optimize its performance, one for the track and another for drag racing.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• When the temperature drops, a standard mechanical heat pump will precondition the battery before setting off to help maintain range.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 12 Oct. 2022
• The system also preconditions the battery to ensure the quickest, most efficient stops when the Prologue reaches the charger.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
• All models come with a heat pump and include the ability to manually start preconditioning the battery to prepare for a DC fast charging session.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 12 Dec. 2024
• Porsche says the Taycan will now precondition its battery to a higher temperature and, as a result, the car will reach its max 270 kWh charge while at a higher state of charge.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022
• These updates have increased range efficiency and added an eco mode, the ability to schedule charging, and the ability to precondition a battery for fast charging, among other improvements.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2022
• Polestar 2 models can now be remotely controlled via devices with Google Assistant, allowing people to precondition the cabin and more.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023
• The on-board battery preconditioning system activates when navigation is set to a charging destination or manually via driver input on the touchscreen.
  — New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2025
• The firm, according to a source familiar with the discussions, had preconditioned its resumption of work on the condition that there would be full security on the site of the hospital and a deployment of an armed international force in Haiti.
  — Jacqueline Charles and, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• Over‑the‑air updates can quietly fix bugs, refine transmission shift logic, improve battery preconditioning for faster charging, or sharpen the calibration of automatic emergency braking systems.
  — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Unit prices range from $600 to $1,500 on average, but these ventilators can reduce utility bills by 10% or more by preconditioning incoming fresh air with the outgoing air’s energy.
  — William Bahnfleth, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
• Most EVs take 20-30 minutes to precondition properly, depending on ambient temperature.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025
• An InControl Remote app allowed monitoring and interaction from a smartphone (or smart watch), including remote start/climate preconditioning, lock/unlock, vehicle location on a map or by beep/flash, and journey tracking.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 7 Dec. 2017
• Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur is offering 65 additional colors, Android Auto capability has been added, a remote-park feature is newly available, and the battery packs can precondition to slightly higher temperatures to help reduce charging times.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 24 Aug. 2021