contingency anxiety

Fear of being ill- or under-prepared for a situation.

Dude, why are you packing three bottles of Astroglide for a weekend with Clarice?

It's contingency anxiety! What if a bottle cracks? What if it spills? Can't risk it! Gotta have back up...

by Thunnus November 12, 2012

contingency present

A present purchased in the case a present was purchased for you. The receipt is saved, so that upon not receiving a present you can recoup your money.

I think my sister got me a present this year, so I bought a contingency present just in case.

by Warren Earl December 27, 2019

Contingency Contract

A game mode in Arknights that only big-brain players can pass. In Contingency Contract (or shorten as CC), there will be a lot of buff and debuff selection, each will have its own difficulty, accumulating to a score called Contingency Level (a.k.a Risk). Each CC season will last 2 weeks. During the first week, the highest risk you can achieve is Risk 26 (Most of the time Risk 18), in week 2 it is 32

Player 1: Hey, have you seen that video where 777Ucky passed Contingency Contract season 6 Risk 18 with only 2 operators?
Player 2: What the heck? I can only pass Risk 5 with 13 operators! How can he do that?

by Sakura_Kaslana March 1, 2022

Contingency Scientific Method

A scientific approach that treats results as contingent on specific historical, environmental, and contextual conditions that might not hold elsewhere or elsewhen. It rejects the assumption that findings should replicate everywhere forever, instead asking: under what conditions does this hold? What had to be true for this result to appear? Contingency Method is essential for historical sciences like evolutionary biology or cosmology, where you can't rerun the tape and see if things turn out the same way. It produces knowledge that comes with an expiration date and a location stamp—not because it's bad science, but because reality itself is contingent.

"We found this amazing result in 2020, tried to replicate in 2021, and failed completely. Contingency Scientific Method says: maybe the finding was contingent on pandemic conditions that no longer exist. Science isn't broken—reality just changed."

by Dumu The Void February 23, 2026

expand your constituency

(to) do everything and anything to attract political followers, even if includes lying

if youre Hillary Clinton, stop trying to expand your constituency and focus on the issues instead.

by Sexydimma October 11, 2016

expand your constituency

(to) do everything and anything to attract political followers, even if includes lying

if youre Hillary Clinton, stop trying to expand your constituency and focus on the issues instead.

by Sexydimma March 14, 2018