circumstance
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So we have to be ready for that circumstance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Haney painted the prosecution’s case as heavy on circumstance but light on substance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
How are they thinking through what they would have done in that circumstance?
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026
Tom Gough, who was a close friend and teammate of Adam, agrees he "wouldn't feel so safe" stepping on to a pitch now "because of the circumstance that happened with Adam".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Life may be chemistry, but it’s a special circumstance of chemistry.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
"To say that the circumstances surrounding how they came to be in the bath are unusual would be an understatement," Raper said in the judgement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
"I'm calling for a social welfare response where police are engaged, social services are engaged, and in extreme circumstances young people may be denied of their liberties but only in extreme circumstances," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Do you think this prenuptial agreement is still fair given our circumstances?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Under these circumstances, even Israelis who have grudgingly accepted draft exemptions for haredi men now regard this policy as morally intolerable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Under different, friendlier circumstances Penelope might have offered to have the coat mended, but these circumstances were not those.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Asian Americans and Latinos overstaying a visa are similarly circumstanced; however, a blind driver or a ten-year-old driver is differently circumstanced than a sighted, adult driver.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
According to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause, “all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.”
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
For Polo, Seilan was "for its size, better circumstanced than any island in the world."
From Time Magazine Archive
The moderately circumstanced pay according to their means.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plunder had been startlingly circumstanced, but its issue had been all I could have hoped.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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