situation
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"And when it does, and you're the only survivor, then you're left in a situation of, 'What can I do?'"
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
What will play a big part in his thinking is how the situation in the Mideast unfolds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“How can a VAR change a game with this situation? Just let the referee do his thing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Fawad Razaqzada, a market analyst at Forex.com, said: "One can easily imagine the situation spiralling quite rapidly."
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I knew I had to take my situation into my own hands. I found Auntie Matchmaker and she found your father for me.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“The Constitution is an enduring document,” wrote Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, but its rules and meaning must adjust to “modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Too much empathy, invoked in the wrong situations, toward the wrong targets, is suicidal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"Generations of animals have grown up finding food of high nutritional value more easily near residential areas. We are heading, with mathematical certainty, towards more unpleasant situations," Karamanlidis said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
His referees can get a tangible feel of how key match situations might play out.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Ordinarily it was in situations like this that Burnham could be most effective.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing situation
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 8
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