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

contingent

[kuhn-tin-juhnt] / kənˈtɪn dʒənt /




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Victor Radley and AJ Brimson complete the Australia-born contingent in the squad.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Avila-Cimpeanu told AFP that in late 2025 that the government made funding contingent on the release of confidential information about some 20,000 children represented by the network -- "and we did not do so."

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“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 ● Sep. 23, 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 ● Sep. 19, 2026

Even if fairly dramatic changes were achieved while ignoring race, the results would be highly contingent and temporary.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The biggest contingents were from Egypt, Cameroon and Ghana, it said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Estonia this month hosted an annual exercise, dubbed Spring Storm, with about 12,000 troops from across NATO, including contingents from the U.K. and France.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The contrast with the negotiations a decade ago couldn't be starker – the American and Iranian delegations included strong contingents of experienced diplomats and leading physicists.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 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 ● Oct. 29, 2025

The officer doing the “split” divides incoming inmates into two contingents that line up on either side of the room’s periphery and wait their turn on the serving line.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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