contingencies
Example Sentences
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He is reluctant to resume major combat operations, the officials said, partly because the U.S. wants to reserve dwindling munitions for other contingencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
When is it time to seek legal advice and put processes in place for all contingencies — for example, what happens if you fall and become incapacitated?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Or more redundancy could have been built into the supply chains, but this would have cost money for contingencies that few took seriously enough to fund.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
But there will have to be contingencies in place.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
