How to Use contingency in a Sentence

contingency

noun

• In making our business plans, we tried to prepare for any contingency that might hurt sales.
• Ideally, your company had a strong contingency plan in place to ensure your operations could continue.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The inspection takes place five days after the offer, instead of up to 10 days, quickening the contingency phase when a buyer can back out without a penalty.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2021
• Despite the very long lead time to this decision, no apparent contingency arrangements were negotiated in the meantime.
  — Imraan Valodia, Quartz, 4 July 2021
• But if some full-bird colonels at the Pentagon don't have contingency plans in case one of those countries attacks the United States, then somebody isn't doing their job.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 June 2021
• Using agile decision making to plan for a major project, including contingency planning and scenario planning, is vital for the project to be successful.
  — Swapna Sathyan, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• In order to make offers more appealing to sellers, buyers are having to go above and beyond - whether this means making an all-cash offer, an offer well above asking price, or a no-contingency offer.
  — Mike Maher, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• The company is lining up backup plants and making other contingencies to mitigate the closure, but strict ordering allocations are in place.
  — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Webb said the project length is set for one year, with some contingency for weather.
  — Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• 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
• To believe that your life is made of, or made out of, chances means not to think of contingency as something like a god.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• But four might not be enough to get through a game, so the Dolphins also have contingencies.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
• But the Pentagon has been planning for the worst-case contingencies if the talks failed.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024