situation
Example Sentences
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“This is absolutely a situation of stealing from your future self,” said Valerie Rivera, a certified financial planner based in Chicago.
From MarketWatch
The U.S. forces will “temporarily assess what is happening on the ground, engage Syrian partners, and help stabilize the situation,” Hawkins said.
“Actually there is a pause on that at the moment,” McMahon said in response to a question from a reporter about whether she was concerned wage garnishment would make struggling borrowers’ financial situation worse.
From MarketWatch
This is exactly the kind of situation where the informational structure collapses, the movement gets pooled into a “bad type,” and “law and order” becomes the dominant frame.
Earlier this week, Kyiv declared a state of emergency in its energy sector and appointed former prime minister Denys Shmyhal as energy minister to tackle the situation.
From BBC
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