contingent event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontingentandevent
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contingent
adjective
uk/kənˈtɪn.dʒənt/us/kənˈtɪn.dʒənt/
depending on something else in the future in order ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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These propositions report the existence or nonexistence of a contingent being, as well as the occurrence or non-occurrence of acontingenteventor states of affairs.
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Transmission systems are operated to allow for continuity of supply even if acontingentevent, like the loss of a line, were to occur.
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The interplay among internal or environmental contingent events or conditions determines the precise developmental path taken.
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Lawmakers need to account for the complex interaction of a large number of contingent events, specifying the factual scenario under which a legal rule applies.
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If so, then the emergence of asynchrony and contingent events within the primate ancestry may have depended upon heterochronic mechanisms.
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Substitutions portray interactional presence, contingent events, and the possibility of rule breaking as central to language rather than secondary to it.
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Asynchrony and contingent events were therefore not unique to hominid ancestors and cannot alone account for the massive advances that characterised human cognitive descent.
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Within this subgroup, we also include contingent events, that is, those whose occurrence in the future depends on a condition, which makes them even more hypothetical in nature.
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There are no contingent events in this case.
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The second point of contention between freewill and open theists is exhaustive definite foreknowledge of future contingent events.
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Real options consider each and every scenario and indicate the best corporate action in any of these contingent events.
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