circumstance

Example Sentences

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Investigators are still working to determine the circumstances that led up to the fatal crash on Sunday evening.

From BBC

In these circumstances, it makes more sense to spend more of your savings during your 60s, if you have to, in order to delay the start of Social Security.

From MarketWatch

Georgia Flowers-Lee, a vice president with United Teachers Los Angeles, said Mazariegos discussed his gun conviction and the circumstances surrounding it during his interviews with the union, which ended up endorsing him.

From Los Angeles Times

Under normal circumstances, these three Gulf airports together handle more than 3,000 flights every day, the majority of them operated by the local carriers, Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways.

From BBC

Transit passage rights through straits remain applicable during armed conflicts and suspending commercial navigation through Hormuz "cannot be lawful" barring exceptional circumstances, he added.

From Barron's