contingent
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“It’s all contingent on how his knee is feeling,” Roberts said of Ohtani’s second-half workload.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
“The wide range suggests outcomes remain highly contingent on how durable the current positive market backdrop proves to be.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Yet if you start to break down the Premier League contingent by position, a trend emerges.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
As it backed into a gate at the rear of the empty museum, the truck was greeted by a handful of staff and a small media contingent including AFP journalists.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Behind her in the kitchen, the day’s large female contingent had congregated, laughing and whispering.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
But much like other companies with cult followings and eager contingents of wealthy fans, traditional ways of calculating how much companies are worth don’t apply well to SpaceX.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The US military describes the training as "Africa Command's largest premier, joint, annual exercise," bringing together "more than 10,000 participants from more than 20 nations, including contingents from NATO."
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
In Los Angeles this summer, contingents of heavily armed, masked agents began chasing down and arresting day laborers, street vendors and car wash workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
Both contingents overwhelmingly chose Harris, which Coleman found notable given Harris' loss.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024
The officer doing the “split” divides incoming inmates into two contingents that line up on either side of the room’s periphery and wait their turn on the serving line.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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