contingency
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That contingency plan would involve hiring replacement workers who would have to undergo the same detailed accreditation procedures demanded by FIFA, plus job training.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
Another contingency hates AI altogether and wants nothing to do with it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
He said he did not have "confidence" in SEW to resolve the problem soon, adding the company "didn't seem to have any contingency plans for extreme weather".
From BBC • May 28, 2026
“It was a contingency plan,” Skrmetti, the Tennessee attorney general, said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
It lacked the lyrical eloquence and the floating optimism of the Jeffersonian version because it was grounded in the palpable sense of contingency Adams had internalized over his long career.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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