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If a home is listed as "contingent" on a real estate site, what does that mean?

contingent

[kuhn-tin-juhnt] / kษ™nหˆtษชn dส’ษ™nt /




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“I did not advise Navatek officials, nor would I advise any client, that support from Sen. Collins was contingent on campaign donations,” Mandigo wrote.

From Salon โ— Sep. 23, 2026

Analyst Craig Hutchison says “the premium is relatively modest and heavily reliant on contingent value that appears difficult to realize under our price assumptions.”

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Sep. 22, 2026

Ritwik Gupta, a computer science and AI professor at the University of Maryland, believes that pacing the frontier is contingent upon on widespread cooperation among labs.

From MarketWatch โ— Sep. 19, 2026

Liverpool winger Ngumoha was part of a contingent of young players that flew with the England senior squad for their pre-World Cup training camp in Palm Beach.

From BBC โ— Sep. 17, 2026

Relations of ideas are purely logical; our knowledge of contingent matters, of matters of fact, depends on evidence: testimony, experience, documents.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Smithfield Hall will be big on U.S. games—but with 33 screens, it will also attract other contingents throughout the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Jun. 11, 2026

The US military describes the training as "Africa Command's largest premier, joint, annual exercise," bringing together "more than 10,000 participants from more than 20 nations, including contingents from NATO."

From Barron's โ— May 3, 2026

In Los Angeles this summer, contingents of heavily armed, masked agents began chasing down and arresting day laborers, street vendors and car wash workers.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Oct. 29, 2025

Both contingents overwhelmingly chose Harris, which Coleman found notable given Harris' loss.

From Salon โ— Nov. 9, 2024

There were opportunities to travel to foreign countries with contingents of ‘minority group scholars.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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