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Possible and probable
add credence to something
always
anything's possibleidiom
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as never beforeidiom
bet
fair
houseroom
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in with a chance
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lean
manage
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probability
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tend
tip

contingency | American Dictionary

contingency
noun[ C ]
us/kənˈtɪn·dʒən·si/
something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further plans and arrangements necessary:
We must prepare for all possible contingencies.

contingency | Business English

contingency
noun[ C ]
uk /kənˈtɪndʒənsi/uspluralcontingencies
something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further arrangements necessary:
"While it is impossible to account for every contingency, the industry historically has met demand and fully expects to do so this winter," said the American Petroleum Institute.
an arrangement for dealing with something that might possibly happen or cause problems in the future:
The report advises a minimum fund of three months' net income to provide a contingency against uncertainties in the future.
 on a contingency basis
LAW
if you work for someone on a contingency basis, you agree that you will only be paid if you achieve a particular aim, for example, getting a successful result in a court of law:
In personal injury cases many attorneys work on a contingency basis, so you will not have to pay them a fee up front.

Examples of contingency

contingency
The frequency of fire entry into forest fuel samples of different type were compared by 2 analysis of 2 x 2 contingency tables.
Contingency tables involving small numbers and the c2 test.
Sharp bounds for the maximum of the chi-square index in a class of contingency tables with given marginals.
Only the response-reinforcer contingency was varied, while the stimulus-reinforcer relations were unchanged.
What this petition shows is that social linkages were by no means obvious, but that they could be shaped precisely as historical contingencies.
Each of the models described above is formulated to enforce a hypothesized constraint on the counts in the contingency table.
Below, the policy relevance of all four contingencies will be demonstrated.
If hooks are less than completely determinate, then every aspect of the popular record must be subject to contingency.
There are also hints of contingency among several of the more assertively egalitarian groups.
Many of the laws underlying sensorimotor contingencies could be said to be related both to the visual apparatus and to the nature of objects.
And to be a visual perceiver is, thus, to be capable of exercising mastery of vision-related rules of sensorimotor contingency.
On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality and on a new mode of determining life contingencies.
For our claim is not that knowledge and exercise of sensorimotor contingencies can solve the same feat.
It is the causing of needless suffering that is wrong; the mere contingency of a creature's existence is irrelevant.
The notion that manipulation of sensorimotor contingencies underlies perception and awareness is old, dating at least to behaviorist views.
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Collocations withcontingency

contingency

These are words often used in combination with contingency.

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contingency management
Teaching parents contingencymanagement procedures and anxiety coping skills can be worthwhile.
contingency operation
The armed forces are called upon to undertake another category of civil contingency operation from time to time.
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