accidental circumstance

collocation in English

meaningsofaccidentalandcircumstance

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accidental
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.sɪˈden.təl/us
/ˌæk.səˈden.t̬əl/
happening or existing ...
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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 ofaccidentalandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofaccidental circumstance

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It is an almostaccidentalcircumstancethat the members of the partnership have changed.
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That is a purelyaccidentalcircumstancewhich does not in the least affect my contention that this property should be transferred with its present legal obligations.
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Owing to thataccidentalcircumstancethe difficulties that would otherwise have beer almost inevitable through a division of that kind between two bodies had not arisen.
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Their inner structure is not the result of accidental circumstances.
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But that is not to condone the accidental circumstances which brought them that particular fortune.
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Owing to various accidental circumstances it did not work out like that.
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In the provinces accidental circumstances render this situation even more perilous than appears at first sight.
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That policy depended, however, on certain temporary, national and accidental circumstances.
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That will arise simply from the accidental circumstances that these men and women have happened to spend long working lives in an industry where those are the customary conditions.
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I think what has occurred may have been influenced by accidental circumstances, and it should not be judged as a definite policy on the part of any other country.
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This is a matter not of eradicating differentials but of accepting that payment should be related to need, not to the accidental circumstances in which a person is blinded.
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It is an absurd pretence to think of any equity in reference to landlords who never spent one farthing there, who are there through accidental circumstances, and who, having got.
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