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adjective
Possible or liable, but not certain to occur; incidental; casual.
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Sartre and Beauvoir used the word "pivotal e)" to describe each other — the "necessary" significant other in their lives in contrast to "contingent" lovers.
Banks will have to satisfy the FSA on their assessment of all manner of liquidity risks, from the "stickiness" of wholesale and retail funding to contingent exposures to off-balance-sheet activities.
Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, said that while the shift to contingent faculty was an inexorable fact of life, he was not convinced that it harmed the quality of education — and he added that it might even improve quality in some vocational programs.
Terry Hartle, senior vice president at the American Council on Education, said the long-term shift to contingent faculty members could be seen as good or bad — positive because colleges could more easily respond to changing student interests, negative because the loss of longtime tenured professors erodes a hallmark of American universities.
One might want to extend such arguments to contingent propositions.
God's will with respect to contingent propositions is unqualifiedly free.
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These criteria are subject to changes contingent to authoritative guidelines.
After ECM decellularization treatment, BCA assay was performed to control contingent sample-to-sample variations in total protein amount.
He has had to hire extra Elvis impersonators, he said, to bring the contingent to six.
The approach you take has to be contingent on the answers to these questions.
Increased potential for early discharge from the ward to the CCNT was reported to be contingent upon improved personal relationships.
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