contingent (on or upon)

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Adjective
  • This will be especially important if the company wants to ship AI smart glasses — which are heavily dependent on quality AI performance and accuracy — to compete with the likes of Meta and Google.
    Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • But Trump’s tariff policies have put economic strain on a region that’s heavily dependent on trade with Mexico.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Blackhawks sent Seth Jones to the Florida Panthers for goaltender Spencer Knight and a conditional 2026 first-round draft pick in March, and also agreed to pay 26% of his average salary of $9.5 million for the remaining five years on Jones’ contract.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
  • Tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA) and HashiCorp Sentinel are increasingly being used to enforce conditional controls—e.g., permitting public access to a service only if logging and throttling are enabled.
    Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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“Contingent (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contingent%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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