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Another word for circumstance

Noun

  1. Existing surroundings that affect an activity.

    2. See also:

    be

  2. One of the conditions or facts attending an event and having some bearing on it

    3. See also:

    real

  3. Something that happens

    4. See also:

    happen

  4. Something significant that happens

    5. See also:

    happen

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Sentence Examples

  • To throw that away because of an accident of circumstance would be a tragedy.

  • Every circumstance now conspired to effect his fall.

  • It was this latter circumstance which ultimately led to its abolition.

  • They were men of ideas who were forced by circumstance to become soldiers.

  • It was now proposed that he should be accredited as Bavarian ambassador in London; but the circumstance that he was a British subject presented an insurmountable obstacle.

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