as in dependent
determined by something else
the sale of the house is conditional upon the approval of a mortgage for the prospective buyer
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Many other nations make citizenship conditional on the legal status of the parents or a person's length of residency in the country, per the Library of Congress.
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April Rubin, Axios, 25 Jan. 2025
Local restaurants, gas station cited for rodent droppings, mold
The following Sacramento County restaurants had violations the week of Jan. 9 through Wednesday, Jan. 15, resulting in a conditional pass.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
In December, the singer entered a conditional plea in Davidson County Circuit Court to two misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment stemming from the incident.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
That is until Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20, 2025—the first day of his second term as President—that would make birthright citizenship conditional on the legal status of one’s parents, targeting many of the hundreds of thousands of children born each year to immigrants.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
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April Rubin, Axios, 25 Jan. 2025
Local restaurants, gas station cited for rodent droppings, mold
The following Sacramento County restaurants had violations the week of Jan. 9 through Wednesday, Jan. 15, resulting in a conditional pass.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
In December, the singer entered a conditional plea in Davidson County Circuit Court to two misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment stemming from the incident.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
That is until Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20, 2025—the first day of his second term as President—that would make birthright citizenship conditional on the legal status of one’s parents, targeting many of the hundreds of thousands of children born each year to immigrants.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Conditional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conditional. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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