contingent
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City's World Cup contingent featured for several of the tournament's leading nations.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Christodoulides, however, insisted that the renewed talks were not contingent on confidence-building.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
According to an increasingly dominant contingent of sociologists, sociologists also need to engage with the public more forcefully.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
There were mixed results for the Black Cats contingent with captain Granit Xhaka narrowly missing out on a semi-final match against England.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The task, in other words, is to understand how reliable knowledge and scientific progress can and do result from a flawed, profoundly contingent, culturally relative, all-too-human process.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The biggest contingents were from Egypt, Cameroon and Ghana, it said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
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
There were opportunities to travel to foreign countries with contingents of ‘minority group scholars.’
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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