Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of circumstance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- n. a person's financial situation (good or bad)
Examples
“I gave a source for a study that showed that the “gap”, under certain circumstances, is reversed.”
“There are particular cases where the change in circumstances is sufficiently drastic to lead to major price and income adjustments.”
“Giving your way out of the circumstances is also a very interesting concept.”
“You have spoken of the Club as being honoured by my presence here; I have no doubt the observation was kindly meant, but I have equally no doubt that you all realise how in the plain and simple and unvarnished truth the honour under the circumstances is all mine.”
“But he gave that advice which facts, or what he called circumstances, made necessary, and which if followed out, will, it is to be hoped, lead to some basis of principle which we do not see at present. ”
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
“So yes there are certain circumstances when military wives can choose to not work but I really wish I had a choice!”
“The poor girls death under any circumstances is so, so sad.”
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“Geography may not “be” history, but history absolutely is (or rather becomes, under certain circumstances) geography.”
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“Under certain circumstances, the army * would* have been prohibited from killing him.”
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“Data recovery under those circumstances is expensive and limited to those sections that are not physically damaged.”
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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List 20
Derivatives from Chapter 20 of Part One of English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
derogation, attenuated, efflorescence, indisputably, respiratory, circumstances, undulated, prerogative, eradicate, imputation, countervailing, aberrant and 8 more...
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Christmas Pageant Chapter Three
Vocabulary for Chapter Three of the Best Christmas Pageant Ever
pews, volunteer, sprouted, insane, circumstances, sympathize, ridiculous, sacrilegious, barge, minister, pussywillow, rowdy and 1 more...
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