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conditional

[kuhn-dish-uh-nl] / kənˈdɪʃ ə nl /


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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

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

They interpreted their slapdash working conditions, created by chronic underfunding by the AEC, as an ominous sign that the agency’s commitment to Livermore remained conditional.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

"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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