conditional
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The boy was granted conditional bail and must not contact the alleged victims or witnesses, must not be alone with girls under 16 without supervision, and must work with the Youth Justice Service.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said investigators were looking into 217 suspects of which 56 had been remanded in custody while another 88 were granted conditional release.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Building on earlier work, including a program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Stanford programmed the monitors with time delays and conditional triggers so that some monitor readings didn’t automatically set off an alarm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father’s moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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"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
But there are other ways to express conditionals, such as “You can have pudding only if you eat your meat” or “All dogs are mammals.”
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
There is one more piece to the puzzle of how to write classy conditionals.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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