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In natural English speech, "contingency" appears in contexts such as: "Line. What I was doing there, I was part of a 3,000-man Marine unit that was actually forward deployed, had been training for the past year to respond to a crisis contingency type situation. Generally, Marine expeditionary units, when they're called up to respond to a crisis or contingency, it's usually there's unrest in a country, so they're evacuating an embassy or something small scale,". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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Line. What I was doing there, I was part of a 3,000-man Marine unit that was actually forward deployed, had been training for the past year to respond to a crisis

contingency type situation. Generally, Marine expeditionary units, when they're called up to respond to a crisis

or contingency, it's usually there's unrest in a country, so they're evacuating an embassy or something small scale,

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noun

The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.

Synonyms:possibility unpredictability option choice

noun

A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.

“There was also the imperative necessity of creating a reserve fund for unforeseen contingencies, and the question ever present was how was money to be found.”

Synonyms:chance contingent eventuality possibility

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