similar circumstance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsimilarandcircumstance
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similar
adjective
uk/ˈsɪm.ɪ.lər/us/ˈsɪm.ə.lɚ/
looking or being almost, but not exactly, ...
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circumstance
noun
uk/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofsimilarandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Exposure to dust included visiting or working on a building site, or living in, on, or near a building site on an adjacent block, or asimilarcircumstance.
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Which experiences in your life shape how you react to this story, and what do these experiences illuminate about how you'd like to be treated in asimilarcircumstance?
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Experience shows that in cases of defamation and libel over the years nosimilarcircumstancehas arisen.
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Let us imagine asimilarcircumstancerecurring in the future.
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After ten years, he directs that the money be dedicated to another family in asimilarcircumstance.
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Under similar circumstances, other local governments were expected to become much more antagonistic toward the central government's lack of action.
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Local option was to be used again, under similar circumstances, in the revised squatter ordinance of 1937.
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Some are struck by sudden cancer, or car crashes; others, in similar circumstances, experience near-misses and continued good fortune.
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The latter is based on the intuition that people within a particular group tend to behave alike under similar circumstances.
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But these people are not directly in touch with each other (or anyway not with all others) in objectively similar circumstances.
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However, the collection does not rise above being a detailed account of very similar circumstances with regard to violations and legislation of women's rights.
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There is only "knowledge" of objects as embedded in the immediate circumstances and the history of perceiving and acting in similar circumstances.
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This may apply to many older people in similar circumstances.
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Here, various people operating at some distance from one another face objectively similar circumstances.
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That is not to say that any person who found herself in relevantly similar circumstances would behave in the same way.
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Memory allows feed-forward mechanisms to anticipate output errors that have occurred in the past under similar circumstances.
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We interpret the increase in between-line variance in more extreme environments as representing the genetic variation in the original population under similar circumstances.
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Would another individual coming from the same professional group, possessing comparable qualifications and experience, behave in the same way in similar circumstances?
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Different language users will formulate their thoughts differently under similar circumstances, while a single speaker will use different linguistic forms on different occasions.
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Bartle continued to make major decisions only after deciding what his father would have done in asimilarcircumstance.
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