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conditional

[kuhn-dish-uh-nl] / kənˈdɪʃ ə nl /


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For starters, the OCC issued preliminary conditional approvals for stablecoin banking services to five of our competitors nine months before granting conditional approval to our company.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The department will weigh in on the conditional use permit at a later date.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

The European Union gave the deal conditional approval last month.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Duffy was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £565 in compensation to his neighbour.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

However, if it’s known somehow that the person chosen is over six feet four inches tall, then the conditional probability that he or she also weighs more than 250 pounds is considerably higher.

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

“What Slavic 101 couldn’t name didn’t exist,” Batuman writes; Nina’s reality remains untroubled by conditionals and subjunctives.

From Slate Mar. 20, 2017

Fortunately, there is a formula for writing graceful conditionals, and it becomes clear once you recognize two distinctions.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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