conditional
adjective
imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms.
conditionals
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pluralof conditional.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"They also can repair damage to their DNA caused by radiation and other extreme conditionals or chemicals."
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
In the courtroom his lawyer read out a carefully written, complicated text, full of caveats, conditionals and the passive voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
Universal statements are logically equivalent to conditionals, which means that any conditional can be translated into a universal statement and vice versa.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
“What Slavic 101 couldn’t name didn’t exist,” Batuman writes; Nina’s reality remains untroubled by conditionals and subjunctives.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017
With these conditionals, anything goes: you can use pretty much any tense in the if and then clauses, depending only on when the relevant events take place or are discovered.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
