situational
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“What makes today’s ruling so off-base is the Court’s lack of situational awareness regarding this equitable judgment,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Pro Football Focus ranked him fourth in a grading system that factors in hang time, directional placement and situational execution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
For Croatia's second goal, however, this situational back five was disrupted, likely because England's players were too reactive to the movement of individual opposition players.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The long list of situational phobias includes the fears of being bound, beaten, locked into an enclosed area, and smeared with human waste.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
