contingencies
Meaning
of Contingency
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
After the publication of Naked Lunch, a book whose creation was to a certain extent the result of a series of contingencies, Burroughs was exposed to Brion Gysin 's cut-up technique at the Beat Hotel in Paris in October 1959.
Because such statements include risks, uncertainties and contingencies, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Broad, W. J. (2007), p.15 Very often prophecies were worded ambiguously, so as to cover all contingencies – especially so ex post facto.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he formerly deployed to multiple overseas contingencies as a Marine Corps infantry officer.
Audrey Laur Liabilities of Doctors on Aircraft Med Leg J March 2013 81:31—35 Major airlines are all covered by insurance to meet such contingencies and to cover doctors who act as their temporary agents.
However, the latest wave of the coronavirus, and Gov. Larry Hogan’s reinstatement of the State of Emergency throughout Maryland, has prompted the system to make contingencies for a potential entire year of non-school instruction.