the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
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| situation |
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| state of affairs |
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sample sentences
"the present international situation is dangerous""wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"
"eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
absurd, the absurd
acceptance
ballgame, new ballgame
challenge
childlessness
complication
crowding
disequilibrium
element
environment
equilibrium
exclusion
goldfish bowl, fish bowl, fishbowl
hotbed
inclusion
intestacy
picture, scene
prison house, prison
rejection
size of it, size
square one
status quo
thing