conditional

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Iran and the US agreed to the conditional ceasefire on Tuesday, just over an hour before the expiry of the deadline Trump had set for Iran to make a deal.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

With copper’s long-term uptrend intact and sentiment turning up from extreme pessimism, copper becomes a conditional confirmation test for the reopening theme.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

And that in turn is conditional on a host of at this stage unknowable developments: the deployment of ground forces, the contribution of neighbors and others to the shipping challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

But at his press conference, Chair Jerome Powell said that was conditional on inflation falling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Likewise with dice: the probability of rolling a 7 with a pair of dice is 1/6, the same as the conditional probability of rolling a 7 given that the three previous rolls have been 7s.

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