conditional
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Loyal, the biotech startup, hopes to make a drug that slows dog aging commercially available next year, pending conditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Day was given a conditional discharge in June 2024 for failing to remove a facial disguise and received £200 in fines in November 2024 for blocking a road during a protest.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said its approval was conditional “upon full compliance with the commitments offered by Paramount.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The European Union on Wednesday gave the conditional green light for Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
I can already tell that everything here is going to be straightforward and conditional, and I like that.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
"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
If–then statements in logic are called conditionals and are testable.
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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