situational
Example Sentences
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What I do think we owe one another is basic situational awareness.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“There are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness,” he wrote in his viral essay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
For Croatia's second goal, however, this situational back five was disrupted, likely because England's players were too reactive to the movement of individual opposition players.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
County officials heralded the investigation for providing new details from the chaotic first hours of the firestorm, which highlighted incident commanders’ lack of situational awareness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
The long list of situational phobias includes the fears of being bound, beaten, locked into an enclosed area, and smeared with human waste.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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