conditional

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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

Tossici-Bolt was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £20,000, while Smith-Connor was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay more than £9,000 in costs.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

“It’s a conditional willingness to raise interest rates, but not a signal of a rate hike in the near future,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 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