circumstance
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In that circumstance, whether she makes her husband’s children whole — if you agree that his children should have a slice of the pie — would depend on her largesse.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
But Clive Lawrence says an honours system which reflects a wider range of backgrounds is a way to "send a powerful message that it is contribution, not circumstance, that truly matters".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The ascension of Burnham owes less to secret machinations in smoke-filled backrooms than it does sheer circumstance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
All they asked for was for their school to make an individualized assessment as to whether they could fairly play with their friends and classmates given their specific medical circumstance.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, subsequently demanded answers about both the outbreak and the circumstances surrounding that meeting.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The deceptively edited video created by someone unauthorized to be on our property does not reflect the circumstances of the incident accurately.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It also avoids witnesses appearing publicly and testifying about the bloody circumstances and history of Nick Reiner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Erdogan said the pact emerged out of the "new circumstances" in the Middle East with regional players seeking to assume greater responsibility for their own security and stability.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
If not, then “I can only regret the circumstances, and must abide the consequences.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
The moderately circumstanced pay according to their means.
From Time Magazine Archive
While waiting for them to speak, the picturesque career of handsome, well-groomed Mr. Cortelyou was envisioned by many of his intimates to those not so circumstanced.
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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