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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

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

At the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC granted conditional bail with stricter conditions than at a previous hearing, including the increased surety and electronic monitoring.

From BBC ● 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

An interesting elaboration on the concept of conditional probability is known as Bayes’ theorem, first proved by Thomas Bayes in the eighteenth century.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

"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

Fortunately, there is a formula for writing graceful conditionals, and it becomes clear once you recognize two distinctions.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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