contingent
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6.8
- adjective
- /kənˈtɪn.dʒənt/
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sujeto a
- The event is contingent upon the weather, so we have a backup plan in case it rains.
- contingent reward
- contingent imitation
- highly contingent
And to some degree, they are contingent and even arbitrary.
- And to some degree, they are contingent and even arbitrary.
- This is called contingency management so that your rewards are contingent.
- And your majority is very contingent and could drop with one bad headline or, or, or event.
- Like all the things I'd loved and taken for granted were in fact radically contingent, hovering on the verge of destruction.
- Our knowledge is, and I think will always remain historically and spatially incredibly contingent.
- It is the only aspect of your behavior on the Kantian picture that isn't determined by the contingent forces of the world around you.
- And so it, it this society values, valorizes and and and and and and touts that contingent self esteem.
- Now, it's my supposition that a necessary thing cannot be the sufficient reason or the sufficient cause of a contingent thing.
- My point is that when people come to power for contingent reasons, they don't stay in power unless they're able to manage it.
- The value of health insurance is contingent not just on the fact of health insurance, but on what health insurance buys you.
- I would make funding contingent upon disclosure rules.
- And it does, you know, it is contingent on the people that are within it.
- Love should not be contingent on behaviour.
- And your experience of your life is entirely contingent on where you place your attention.
- The free will conditions or makes contingent morality, right?
Examples
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God's forgiveness is contingent upon us forgiving others.
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Therefore, there is no absolute truth, but truth is contingent upon the self and the environment.
Academic text (1992) -
It's possible or contingent, it's not necessary.
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All that information there is contingent upon whether or not...
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Is it contingent upon the volume we were working with?
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The rights of children, that is, must not be contingent on the condition of parents alone.
Academic text (1992) -
The value of health insurance is contingent not just on the fact of health insurance, but on what health insurance buys you.
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Your release was contingent upon your ability to provide credible information.
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Our success, our very survival... is contingent upon our functioning together as one cohesive unit.
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The money the Balerdi family has agreed to pay to renovate the restaurant is contingent upon you showing up here every Friday.
Synonyms
176
3.2
Needing something else to happen or be true
112
2.8
Controlled by another thing or condition
33
5.0
True or allowed only if something else happens
31
3.4
Something else decides it, for example a condition like the weather
12
6.4
Dependent on something else or on certain conditions
6
6.4
Dependent on a condition or on something happening
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.6
A possible future payment a business may have to make if an event happens
- Specialized
The chance that something happens after something else has happened
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Contingent meaning 'depending on' comes from the same Latin parts con- 'with' and tangere 'to touch', giving the idea of being 'connected to' another thing, so if something is contingent it only happens when something else happens.