circumstance
Example Sentences
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No matter how trapped you feel in your circumstance, remember: Things could always get worse.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 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
She warned that strategy may not work in every circumstance, and there may be severe consequences to waiting.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing circumstance
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Around and Around: Circum
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Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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