conditional

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Musk has already forfeited $26 billion, which was tied to a conditional package known as the “2025 interim award.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Although the European Parliament has given its conditional approval to the EU-US trade pact, before the deal is implemented by the bloc, it still needs to be negotiated with EU states.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

The United States has still not paid off its membership fee arrears at the World Health Organization, the WHO chief said Wednesday, with Washington's intention to leave conditional on paying up.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Chatrie entered a conditional guilty plea, but the Supreme Court will hear his appeal on April 27.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

An interesting elaboration on the concept of conditional probability is known as Bayes’ theorem, first proved by Thomas Bayes in the eighteenth century.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos