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Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; (non-gloss)
(ux)
A keyword that invokes conditional processing: in the event that a given condition is true, execute the given statement(s) (otherwise execute other statements).
Supposing that; (non-gloss)
Even if; even in the circumstances that.
(RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist)
2004, (w) and Kim Tribble (writers), (w) (singers), “If It’s The Last Thing I Do” (song), in ''You Do Your Thing'' (album):
- If it’s the last thing I do / If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu / If it’s the last thing I do / I’m gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop / To get my hands on you / If it’s the last thing I do.
Considering the fact that; that; (n-g).
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
Although; (non-gloss); may..but.
(quote-journal)
Whether; (non-gloss)
''I don't know if I want to go or not.''
1715–1717, (w), ''Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind'', Canto III:
- Quoth Matthew, “(..) / She doubts if two and two make four, / (..)”
(quote-text)
(non-gloss); in case.
An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc.
1709, Susannah Centlivre, ''The Busy Body'', Act III, in John Bell (ed.), ''British Theater'', J. Bell (1791), page 59,
- ''Sir Fran.'' Nay, but Chargy, if——— ¶ ''Miran.'' Nay, Gardy, no Ifs.——Have I refus'd three northern lords, two British peers, and half a score knights, to have put in your Ifs?
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{{quote-journal|en|date=April 9, 2013|author=Andrei Lankov|title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/opinion/stay-cool-call-north-koreas-bluff.html?_r=0
"what-if" alternative history (q) / events (q)
(syn)
(ja-usex)
(l), on condition that
yew wood
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(quote-book)
(alt form)