contingencies

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In addition to planning for all contingencies, take advantage of any extra ways to save and invest, such as catch-up contributions for people 50 and older, Bond said.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

For the last two years, I have been researching a book about the making of “All the President’s Men,” whose production involved almost as many contingencies and unresolved questions as Watergate itself.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Each mission plan includes contingencies for a rescue that are agreed in advance of a flight by the aviator and home base, so the pilot is both evading the enemy and executing an exit strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Various branches of the military draw up plans for all sorts of contingencies in case the president thinks about ordering one.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 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