circumstance
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"It was a chance circumstance that Ethan saw someone play chess and thought it looked interesting and he decided he wanted to play and it went from there."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But underneath the pomp and circumstance thrummed a question: Could Garber land a megadonor he had been courting for roughly two years?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The project itself grew out of an unusual circumstance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
“He wants to be the hero of any circumstance, but unfortunately he has these frailties that I know too well.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The saying might have worn out of my memory, had not a circumstance immediately followed which served indelibly to fix it there.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The circumstances of the confrontation are under investigation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The MoD did not comment when asked further questions about the circumstances of the incident.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The circumstances around their deaths are shrouded in mystery even as the search has concluded at a property in Lancaster where law enforcement spent two days digging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The investigation into the circumstances leading to the car entering the water continues.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Gran had discovered that she, along with the Stormville and Boggs Ferry Grans, had been hexed to do the Cursed Toads’ bidding in dire circumstances.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
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
The moderately circumstanced pay according to their means.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doubtless most other foreign Powers are similarly circumstanced, and possibly even the U. S. Congress would refuse to bind the U. S. by the Kellogg formula.
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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