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Loyal, the biotech startup, hopes to make a drug that slows dog aging commercially available next year, pending conditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

A federal judge in California ordered the companies to temporarily pause the deal in a ruling on Monday, just two days before the European Union gave the merger a conditional green light.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

However, a conditional obligation to buy based on appearances, goals or triggers such as European qualification could be interpreted either way, depending on how likely it is that Garnacho ultimately completes a permanent move.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Demand for the Birkin is normally so strong that the brand’s sales assistants are able to make access to the bags conditional on buying other stuff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

For several weeks she troubled over it before granting conditional permission: ‘Just remember, you’re not a maid. I don’t want you wearing a uniform.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

"They also can repair damage to their DNA caused by radiation and other extreme conditionals or chemicals."

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

In the courtroom his lawyer read out a carefully written, complicated text, full of caveats, conditionals and the passive voice.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023

But there are other ways to express conditionals, such as “You can have pudding only if you eat your meat” or “All dogs are mammals.”

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

“What Slavic 101 couldn’t name didn’t exist,” Batuman writes; Nina’s reality remains untroubled by conditionals and subjunctives.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017

With these conditionals, anything goes: you can use pretty much any tense in the if and then clauses, depending only on when the relevant events take place or are discovered.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker