precondition

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Analysts had said casting a dissenting vote may have been a precondition for keeping his long-shot candidacy viable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

“A lower cost of capital as rates comes down can help provide some extra juice, but that is not a precondition for markets to go higher,” Helfstein said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 25, 2026

It is also a "precondition" for the possible joint production of military equipment, said a second EU official.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

He argued that the RSF should first evacuate its forces from civilian neighbourhoods - essentially demanding their withdrawal from the territories they had captured - as a precondition for talking.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024

Doubting that Christianity or Protestantism was a precondition for the Scientific Revolution leaves plenty of scope for studying the interaction between faith and science: e.g.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton