as in dependent
determined by something else
the sale of the house is conditional upon the approval of a mortgage for the prospective buyer
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Recent Examples of conditional
Pulse flows are conditional events that span four to seven days and can increase or decrease dam releases, often triggered to support river conditions.
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Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Essentially, these machines can learn higher order correlations between events, meaning the patterns of conditional interactions that depend on the properties of multiple things simultaneously.
—Benjamin P. Brown, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
A number of crypto firms have received conditional approval for a national trust banking charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
—Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
But the actual clinical evidence is more limited and more conditional than most wellness content lets on.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
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Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Essentially, these machines can learn higher order correlations between events, meaning the patterns of conditional interactions that depend on the properties of multiple things simultaneously.
—Benjamin P. Brown, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
A number of crypto firms have received conditional approval for a national trust banking charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
—Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
But the actual clinical evidence is more limited and more conditional than most wellness content lets on.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conditional
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The camp is entirely dependent on aid, disrupted after cuts by USAID last year and again by fighting between Syrian and Kurdish forces this February.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
11 Apr. 2026
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Bosch went on to emphasize that the impact the Miss Universe crown could have was dependent on the person wearing it.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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The tentative agreement also increases work hours to ensure thousands of workers have health care benefits, rescinds layoffs for hundreds of IT technicians and expands health care benefits for teacher assistants and others, according to SEIU Local 99.—
Sarah Lynch Baldwin,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Unions representing teachers and principals reached tentative contract agreements with nation’s second-largest school district over the weekend.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Conditional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conditional. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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