How to Use precondition in a Sentence

precondition

noun

• They insist on a guarantee as a precondition of the deal.
• As a precondition, the two sides would have to agree to a stand-still cease-fire.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• The patient was young, had no preconditions, and was very fit and very aggressive in their health.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2020
• Then McGill Johnson talked about faith as a precondition of hope.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
• That's why the precondition was scrapped in China's new civil code, Xia said.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
• Light, which allows us to see and know the world, is the normal precondition for picturing things.
  — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019
• The tigers still cherish these things (who doesn’t?), but many of their citizens see fairness as a precondition for both.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• Her plan lists an array of preconditions that all U.S. trade partners must meet.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
• The removal of Vladimir Putin is a necessary precondition for the right of Russians to choose their own government.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022
• Leisure was one precondition: enough people had to be free of the demands of subsistence to have time on their hands that required filling.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• An essential precondition for healing is first to cleanse the wound.
  — WSJ, 24 Jan. 2021
• Now the area is central to efforts to resolve the war, with the Tigrayans insisting on the return of that territory as a precondition.
  — Declan Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
• Those who forget to navigate to the station might have to wait a few minutes — and will remember to precondition next time.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• The president repeated that the U.S. remains open to talks with the North without preconditions.
  — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
• But the spokesman added said the fund has no date yet for a formal mission of senior IMF economists to assess the country’s finances, a move that is a precondition for any such deal.
  — Santiago Pérez, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• Of course, a traumatic childhood is not a precondition for making great art.
  — Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• The president has offered to talk to the Iranians without preconditions about a whole range of issues.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2019
• Installing the deck launchers on LCS could require tweaks to the type’s sensors and computers, but that could be a precondition to deploying the ships as fast transports.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• But a necessary precondition for Fujimori’s actions was a sense that the public would back him up.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 8 Nov. 2018
• Biden spent much of this year demanding that Congress raise the debt ceiling without preconditions.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 June 2023
• Biden has demanded that Congress increase the debt ceiling — the amount the United States can borrow to pay its bills — without preconditions.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Worse still, Trump’s secretary of state confirmed that the president was ready to meet with the president of Iran without preconditions.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• In this way, his relentless self-alienation seems to serve as both a hindrance to solidarity and a precondition to it.
  — Marella Gayla, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
• Mike Pompeo has been pressing both sides to complete a prisoner swap, which is a precondition for peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
  — Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2020
• That is a precondition for receiving the monthly benefits, which start at 89 reais ($21).
  — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
• Governor Abbott in Texas has said the precondition for opening the economy is wearing a mask.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2020
• That would be a victory for the ages and the necessary precondition for genuinely moving the country rightward.
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
• Her physical differences helped give her the sense of outsiderness that seems almost a precondition for the writing life.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• The precondition for a democracy to exist at all is that the people within the political society see themselves as part of the same political community, notwithstanding their differences.
  — Thalia Beaty, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• Tackling corruption and repression would also pay economic dividends, as the rule of law is a precondition to broad, stabilizing prosperity.
  — Joseph Sany, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024