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contingency

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In general, brand and media spend is going through serious schedule shifting and contingency planning.

From Digiday

It’s not clear yet whether any of those arguments will be delayed because of Ginsburg’s death, though in the past the court has been able to continue with at least six judges and contingencies for ties.

From Quartz

Bent Flyvbjerg, an economist at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and leader of the research, accused the IOC of being “either deluded, or deliberately overlooking uncomfortable facts” when it sets contingency levels for the games.

From Ozy

Some advertisers are going as far as to put contingency clauses in their contracts with influencers to guarantee that their TikTok campaigns will run on Instagram in the absence of the video-sharing app.

From Digiday

We had contingency plans about how to manage if X percent of staff were ill, now that feels naive.

From Digiday

The bill also provided $64 billion in war funding through the Overseas Contingency Operations account.

We, on the other hand, on the police side, will naturally gear up to deal with any potential contingency that might occur.

All the money would be classified as war funding in the overseas contingency operations part of the defense budget.

Turkey has cooperated at times with Israel and the West on contingency planning for Syria during its civil war.

He arrived in L.A. with nowhere to go, no job, no money, and no contingency.

The painful contingency of continued bad seasons has thus, in some measure, been provided against.

A note that is payable on a contingency is not negotiable, and the happening of the event does not cure the defect.

Ken, it is said, acknowledged that under such a contingency he should feel wholly released from his allegiance.

The House was relieved to hear from Mr. Brace that there was no immediate danger of this contingency.

Sir Robert Peel said, that he doubted the right of any one to catechise his party on the results of a contingency.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contingency, such as: emergency, eventuality, exigency, probability, accident, and break.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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