conditional

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But at his press conference, Chair Jerome Powell said that was conditional on inflation falling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

“It’s a conditional willingness to raise interest rates, but not a signal of a rate hike in the near future,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026

Nubank received conditional approval in January to operate as a bank in the United States, the world's largest financial market, and is now awaiting a final license.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Commitments to liberal democratic norms are conditional, not fixed.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Confusing a conditional statement—if A, then B—with its converse—if B, then A—is a very common mistake.

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