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as in restriction
something that limits one's freedom of action or choice their parents placed several conditions on their weekend plans

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condition

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verb

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Recent Examples of condition
Noun
This ensures our testing base spans different skin to snes, genders, demographics, and dermatological conditions. Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 25 Jan. 2025 Dozens of employees across the government, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of worries of retribution, described agencies gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the new policies and workers frantically trying to assess the impact on their careers and families. Erica L. Green, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
But Hurts has conditioned himself to a high standard, those who’ve played with him say. Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025 His body has been conditioned for the long haul in extremis. Tim Ellis, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for condition 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for condition
Noun
  • Given their effectiveness at causing weight loss and improving health, GLP-1 drugs will likely become more common and increase in use, Hackensack’s Kipnis predicted.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • If colleagues always show up, braving minor health issues or car breakdowns, newcomers learn a different norm.
    Lieke ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But doing so would likely require the help of Congress, and so California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 16 other attorneys general have written to congressional leaders — Democrat and Republican — urging them to keep the provisions of the law in place.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Image The law has a provision to penalize app store operators like Apple and Google and internet hosting companies like Oracle for distributing or maintaining the TikTok app.
    Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The cobra, once a symbol of nature’s awe-inspiring grandeur, became a casualty of war, its life ended not by natural predators or disease, but by humanity’s conflict.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Talavera, Suchan and colleagues hope that using pollen signatures to map changing migration patterns could help to predict where fungal disease outbreaks might occur. Cuvelier, meanwhile, hopes to continue counting butterflies with his granddaughter.
    Saugat Bolakhe, JSTOR Daily, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In Europe, countries like Germany and France offer citizenship to children born on their soil only if their parents meet certain residency or legal status requirements.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Trump also moved ahead with rolling back EPA tailpipe emissions rules that Republicans have characterized as an effective requirement for consumers to buy electric vehicles.
    Daniel Moore, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And while big deferrals and signing bonuses are tools available for any team to use in contract negotiations — MLB’s collective bargaining agreement places no restrictions on either in contracts — there’s a reason the Dodgers have been uniquely positioned to capitalize upon it with such regularity.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • His stance represents a stark contrast to the Biden administration's pause on LNG export approvals and restrictions on federal land drilling.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • African-American airmen training at Tuskegee Airfield in Alabama.
    CBS News, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Our military are not trained as law enforcement officers.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Recently, Annapurna signed a deal that will see the company adapt the games Control and Alan Wake for the screen.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
  • More than 30 years after illustrating Norton Juster's cult kids' book, Feiffer returned to the genre as an author, with books like 1993's The Man in the Ceiling (eventually adapted into a musical with Tony Award-winning producer Jeffrey Seller) and his 2010 re-teaming with Juster, The Odious Ogre.
    Etelka Lehoczky, NPR, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After a heart attack, scar tissue often forms to allow the organ to keep its shape, but the downside is that this tissue doesn’t beat.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
  • There is always the human form on the one hand, and lines and shapes on the other.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025

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“Condition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/condition. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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