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And as he adjusted to this change in circumstances, he screamed at himself a second time: Wait!

Guilt, when dispensed in the circumstances Morris occupied, is the anti-Viagra.

The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.

Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.

I wish I could be writing to you under better circumstances, but unfortunately those avenues have closed up.

This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.

To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.

I was four hours under these circumstances, expecting, and indeed wishing, every moment to be my last.

It was depressing to think of going to bed in such circumstances with the yelling of an Arctic storm for a lullaby.

Never before in human experience had such a display of kindly feeling and profound regret been witnessed in similar circumstances.

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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to circumstances, such as: assets, capital, chances, class, command, and degree.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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