How to Use contingency in a Sentence

contingency

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  • In making our business plans, we tried to prepare for any contingency that might hurt sales.
  • The investors do not pay the law firm, which takes the case on contingency, as the lawyers did in the Musk case.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This was a contingency plan in case there was a problem with the guardians.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • And like, the whole French contingency of our trip like, avoided the spice.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
  • That includes a contingency fund to support the project for the next three years.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Enter the contingency plans and out-of-the-box strategies.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2021
  • That is why all these contingency plans are having to be thought about and looked at.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 1 July 2020
  • Does the network have any contingency plans in the unlikely event the games are scrapped?
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • With that in mind, Awsumb said the current goal is to think ahead to that contingency.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • If that does happen, Sprague and his wife have a contingency plan in place.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2018
  • By the time our first round of shots starts to lose its oomph, contingency plans will have long ago been set in motion.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 June 2021
  • But that’s about as far as things have gone, in terms of contingency planning for this year’s 500.
    — Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2020
  • There is no case for any contingency plans or cancelling the Games or moving the Games.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Few in Kyiv are making the same last-minute contingency plans.
    — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Many contingency plans are being kicked around, and some have even floated the idea of starting the season in the spring.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2020
  • But four might not be enough to get through a game, so the Dolphins also have contingencies.
    — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • One contingency is to line up a third-party spokesman who can help if the brand’s image is dinged.
    — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2016
  • Some firms put in place contingency measures the last time a no-deal exit loomed.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • So some clinics may make last-minute contingency plans for the end of the day, so doses aren’t wasted.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Monarchy seeks, above all, to put on a show of timelessness in which the ruler floats above contingency and change.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2022
  • But clearly there was a contingency plan in place: cue cards.
    — Brenna Williams, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Top lawyers in the case, who worked on a contingency basis for as long as eight years, got tired of waiting for a share of their money.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Crews were also building contingency lines to the west of the fire in case conditions changed.
    — P. Kim Bui, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Team News Leicester could have a full contingency available for the game.
    — SI.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • This started with the drought contingency plan [the 2018 legal agreement among the states on the Colorado River].
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Always have a contingency plan waiting in the wings in case someone lets you down.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Au and Walrath haven't talked about these contingencies with the younger children.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The war in Ukraine also looms large in Japan’s contingency planners.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
  • There is no contingency plan to reduce polling places, Woodall-Vogg said.
    — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Steve Schadler, who lives on Cinnabar Drive, asked about contingency plans if the city denied the request for an early start time.
    — cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022

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