- plural of circumstance.
circumstances
Example Sentences
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In some circumstances, immune-suppressing tissue-resident natural killer cells are beneficial.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Given our ages and circumstances, is there an advantage to making conversions?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Graham was never going to have an easy time running for Senate under any circumstances.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
They have recently reached a point where, in some circumstances, they can navigate in three-dimensional space and even manipulate objects autonomously with just a simple set of instructions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
I don’t know under what circumstances they’d ever collide, and something about that makes me feel incredibly sad.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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