Contingencies
[kən'tɪndʒənsi]
Definition
(pl. ) of Contingency
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Examples
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In New York the question of permanency was of paramount importance, and the other contingencies were sure to arise as well as conditions more easy to imagine than to forestall. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So many strange contingencies are improbable in the highest degree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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