In general, brand and media spend is going through serious schedule shifting and contingency planning.
‘Now is time to come up with pivot plans:’ e-commerce is driving media spending over the holidays|Seb Joseph|October 5, 2020|Digiday
It’s not clear yet whether any of those arguments will be delayed because of Ginsburg’s death, though in the past the court has been able to continue with at least six judges and contingencies for ties.
Five issues the Supreme Court will be deciding on this term|Alexandra Ossola|September 21, 2020|Quartz
Bent Flyvbjerg, an economist at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and leader of the research, accused the IOC of being “either deluded, or deliberately overlooking uncomfortable facts” when it sets contingency levels for the games.
Want to Host the Olympics? Plan to Go Over Budget|Fiona Zublin|September 14, 2020|Ozy
Some advertisers are going as far as to put contingency clauses in their contracts with influencers to guarantee that their TikTok campaigns will run on Instagram in the absence of the video-sharing app.
‘There’s been no emails or interest’: As the drama over TikTok intensifies, advertiser interest cools|Seb Joseph|August 6, 2020|Digiday
We had contingency plans about how to manage if X percent of staff were ill, now that feels naive.
How BBC Global News has adapted to remote reporting|Lucinda Southern|June 4, 2020|Digiday
Turkey has cooperated at times with Israel and the West on contingency planning for Syria during its civil war.
Israel Bombs Gaza While Hamas’ Kidnapping Mastermind Sits in Turkey|Eli Lake|July 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He arrived in L.A. with nowhere to go, no job, no money, and no contingency.
From Homeless to HBO, ‘The Leftovers’ Star Chris Zylka’s Crazy Hollywood Story|Kevin Fallon|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, he semi-jokingly encouraged the “heavier” members of his contingency to perhaps make their way off stage.
Charlie Rangel Dances On|Gideon Resnick|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even the Czech Republic, which was formerly occupied by the Soviet Union, has ruled out such a contingency.
Britain’s KGB Sugar Daddy|Michael Weiss|March 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When the first aircraft went down, Nixon said, they had a contingency plan, and they started putting it into place.
Black Hawk Down Heroes Recall the Battle|Michael Tomasky|October 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Captain Hobson, who had evidently not contemplated this contingency, expressed the hope that no such reaction would take place.
The Treaty of Waitangi|T. Lindsay Buick
But the difference will not affect my point, which is that the words seem to imply the contingency of Jeremiah's leaving Anathoth.
The Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah|C J Ball
I don't believe the company ever thought of such a contingency.
The Carpet from Bagdad|Harold MacGrath
But to circumvent any contingency to the contrary, he and Red remained to guard the house and discuss the situation.
Hopalong Cassidy|Clarence E. Mulford
The thought of such a contingency was painful to Willard Glazier.
Sword and Pen|John Algernon Owens
British Dictionary definitions for contingency
contingency
/ (kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ) /
nounplural-cies
a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality
(as modifier)a contingency plan
something dependent on a possible future event
a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else
(in systemic grammar)
modification of the meaning of a main clause by use of a bound clause introduced by a binder such as if, when, though, or sinceCompare adding (def. 3)
(as modifier)a contingency clause
logic
the state of being contingent
a contingent statement
dependence on chance; uncertainty
statistics
the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test
(as modifier)a contingency table; the contingency coefficient