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in the event of

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in the event of something
if something should happen. In the event of war, we have to be prepared to send in troops. Travel insurance protects you in the event that you have to cancel your trip.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form in the unlikely event if something should happen that you do not expect to happen: In the unlikely event of a fire, alarms will sound and you should exit immediately.
Related vocabulary: in case of something
See also: event

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I knew that our worthy captain, who felt, such a paternal solicitude for the welfare of his crew, would not willingly consent that one of his best hands should encounter the perils of a sojourn among the natives of a barbarous island; and I was certain that in the event of my disappearance, his fatherly anxiety would prompt him to offer, by way of a reward, yard upon yard of gaily printed calico for my apprehension.
We will take good care of them, and in the event of war return them to the arsenal.
Isabel, at Miss Pink's intercession, was induced to accept her lover's excuses, and, in the event of her favorable reception by Hardyman's parents at the farm, to give her consent (not very willingly even yet) to hastening the ceremony which was to make her Hardyman's wife.
 
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