How to Use contingency plan in a Sentence

contingency plan

noun
  • The tell is the lack of a contingency plan.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Does the club have a contingency plan if Howe leaves?
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Each day, keep an eye on how the models evolve and make your contingency plan for eclipse day.
    — Michael Zeiler, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • No need for a contingency plan.
    — Dan Beck, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
  • There’s no contingency plan there.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Jan. 2026
  • And sellers and buyers need to have a contingency plan in place should the appraisal come in low.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
  • But there is a weather contingency plan.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • The next step is to sketch out a contingency plan for each uncertainty.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Storming out of a meeting or quitting your job without a contingency plan?
    — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Teams rarely pay close to $14 million a year for a player who requires a contingency plan.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The city had previously shared a contingency plan in case the strike happened.
    — David Chiu, People.com, 1 July 2025
  • Some doctoring of images and videos begins to feel purely like a good contingency plan.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
  • But like many content creators and marketers, Okamoto and team have a contingency plan.
    — Travers Johnson, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There is also no secret contingency plan for somebody else to take over if Martin gets struck by lightning.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
  • White has provided the contingency plan should the event not be able to take place at the Intuit Dome.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In the absence of a clear contingency plan and with a muddled hierarchy, the threat of disarray looms.
    — Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Set up a contingency plan for small pots that usually need daily watering, such as asking a neighbor or friend to stop by and give them a drink.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 June 2024
  • Youth was still so closely associated with the first decades of rock, there was no contingency plan for surviving.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Houston entered the first stage of the contingency plan in June 2022.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • When the economic crisis comes, most companies try to set a contingency plan and a control tower.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But the company has a contingency plan, emblazoned on its website.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • One country with a contingency plan is Saudi Arabia.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Departments across the Valley said that the contingency plan went as intended.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
  • In this case, a family develops a contingency plan on what to do if the teen does not consume enough food during the family party.
    — Dr. Ellen S. Rome, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The contingency plan is similar to the one used 42 years ago, the last time there was a transit strike in New Jersey.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • That’s not the case this time, which means all HHS agencies will be subject to a contingency plan the department has drawn up.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2023
  • As part of your contingency plan, always keep digital copies of essential documents in cloud storage.
    — Arpit Jain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Bergsten recommends including a contingency plan in your pet trust in case the trustee and/or caretaker picked end up unable to fulfill their roles.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Philadelphia’s modest investment in the depth of the linebacker room supplies them with a contingency plan.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • This time, the MTA's contingency plan includes rolling out a limited shuttle bus plan.
    — Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026

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