conditional
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Harshey-Jones was given conditional bail following a hearing at Chester Crown Court, and will be sentenced on 19 November.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Trusts are usually written in very conditional, flexible language to account for all future possible scenarios and last through several generations of trustees and beneficiaries.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
In addition, it includes a conditional restriction that Meta also agreed to: expanding the nighttime shutdown period to 10:00 pm to 7:00 am, if other platforms also commit to do the same.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
But biological data are conditional, inconsistent and of varying quality, and practical data sets cover only a fraction of small-molecule chemical compounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In any case, given that a family has at least one daughter, what is the conditional probability that it also has a son?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
"They also can repair damage to their DNA caused by radiation and other extreme conditionals or chemicals."
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
In the courtroom his lawyer read out a carefully written, complicated text, full of caveats, conditionals and the passive voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
All conditionals include two components—that which follows the “if” and that which follows the “then.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
CDC officials have occasionally cited that paper in technical writings, couched in conditionals.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2016
With these conditionals, anything goes: you can use pretty much any tense in the if and then clauses, depending only on when the relevant events take place or are discovered.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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