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Yes, contingent is playable

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"Contingent" Definition

noun

A representative group forming part of an assemblage.
A share or quota, as of troops, contributed to a general effort.
An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
Something contingent .
A representative group .

adjective

Dependent on conditions or occurrences not yet established; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.
Happening by chance or accident; fortuitous. See Synonyms at accidental.
Liable to occur but not with certainty; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.
Likely but not certain to happen .

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