tragic occurrence

collocation in English

meaningsoftragicandoccurrence

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tragic
adjective
uk
/ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/us
/ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/
very sad, often involving death ...
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occurrence
noun
uk
/əˈkʌr.əns/us
/əˈkɝː.əns/
something ...
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(Definition oftragicandoccurrencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is an association between parents falling asleep in bed with their babies and thetragicoccurrenceof cot death.
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The setting up of an employers' liability insurers bureau would be a means of preventing such atragicoccurrence.
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I am aware of thetragicoccurrencereferred to in the first part of the question.
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It is atragicoccurrence; it is one which we deeply regret.
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As he has said, thistragicoccurrenceshowed quite clearly that there was something very wrong in the boys' battalion in question—and beyond that, too.
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This is not just an embarrassment: it is in some cases atragicoccurrencefor a child who has to produce a marriage certificate afterwards.
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The whole of this legislation was prompted by a dreadful andtragicoccurrence.
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We shall learn everything possible from thistragicoccurrence.
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We have done and will do all that is humanly possible to avoid a repetition of this rare buttragicoccurrence.
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I feel bound just to add one other fact, an element of comedy in what in other respects is a somewhattragicoccurrence.
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We said that we should do everything that we could to prevent a repetition of such atragicoccurrence.
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I remember onetragicoccurrencewhich stemmed completely from alcohol consumption.
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Thistragicoccurrencehas served to bring to light a state of affairs far from satisfactory.
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I deeply regret thistragicoccurrence.
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A widow would not be prejudiced by thattragicoccurrenceand would be able immediately to claim as a widow and to get full advantage as a widow.
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And now we possess the drastic knowledge that the greatest and mosttragicoccurrencein the history of civil aviation lies to our credit—or to our discredit.
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An official inquiry is being held into thistragicoccurrence, and until this has completed its work it would be premature for me to make any detailed statement.
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That was atragicoccurrence.
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In this conference the emphasis was on seeking common denominators that may help us to forestall such tragic occurrences in the future.
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There have been tragic occurrences of the collapse of building equipment, particularly of cranes, into the road.
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