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Another word for circumstances

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PluralNoun

  1. Condition in life

    See also:

    wealth

    state

  2. Attendant conditions

Idioms:

    under-no-circumstances

    2. under the circumstances

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Sentence Examples

  • It's like getting caught, not by a person, but by the circumstances of your actions.

  • His circumstances were different, and they both knew it.

  • Given the circumstances, she could forgive him.

  • I wish the circumstances were different.

  • And what Cynthia Byrne might have become in a different century, under different circumstances, without a David Dean beside her.

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