conditional
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Peers, from Stockport, was granted conditional bail until sentence, which will take place at the conclusion of the trial involving the other men.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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
Government approval of the West Coast pipeline project is conditional on oil producers funding a multibillion-dollar carbon-capture project.
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
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
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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