conditional

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But the minutes reinforced how those expectations were conditional on inflation resuming a decline toward their goal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

With copper’s long-term uptrend intact and sentiment turning up from extreme pessimism, copper becomes a conditional confirmation test for the reopening theme.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

And that in turn is conditional on a host of at this stage unknowable developments: the deployment of ground forces, the contribution of neighbors and others to the shipping challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

During the past year, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted full approval to one crypto firm, and conditional approval to at least four others, to establish a national trust bank.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 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