given situation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgivenandsituation
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given
adjective
uk/ˈɡɪv.ən/us/ˈɡɪv.ən/
already decided, arranged, ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofgivenandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But in thegivensituationin 1943 such loans must have become hard to come by.
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That is to say, the range of possible repairs in agivensituationcan be formally determined.
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Anygivensituationin the real world has a range of properties that a specific event-denoting lexeme may or may not encode.
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This set is computed from the current discourse context and the possible actions that the user can do in thegivensituation.
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Choosing rules for future decision-making is very different from making actual policy choices in agivensituation.
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But in practice, in anygivensituation, we will try to assess whether two objects are equivalent or not only for a particular purpose.
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A number of authors described developmental changes in the spatial extent of cortical activation in agivensituationduring postnatal life.
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In anygivensituation, the entire range of approaches may be used.
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The first one is that agents behave optimally in anygivensituation.
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The text ranges from the problems of adequate sampling, to the selection and use of appropriate statistical techniques for anygivensituation.
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In other words, optimal experience requires a balance between the challenges perceived in agivensituationand the skills a person brings to it.
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Answers were considered as correct when the participant was able to interpret thegivensituationprecisely.
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The scripts were developed by considering all the conversation tasks or goals the user would wish to achieve in thegivensituation.
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For anygivensituation, there is a potentially infinite number of standards that could govern that situation without anyone profiting from his own wrong.
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However, these results do not encompass all of the relevant questions in anygivensituation.
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It has been repeatedly emphasized that in agivensituationof the health system, one admission can be justified, although inappropriate.
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Procedures are then used as frames to construct a genuine strategy tailored to the specific detail of agivensituation.
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Textbooks based on corpora may also indicate the frequency of collocations, but not necessarily the appropriateness for agivensituation.
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