unfortunate circumstance

collocation in English

meaningsofunfortunateandcircumstance

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unfortunate
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us
/ʌnˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/
unlucky or having ...
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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 ofunfortunateandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Child benefit was introduced in the wake of the renewed emphasis on child poverty, in a political climate where children were pitied as victims ofunfortunatecircumstance.
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It is a veryunfortunatecircumstancefor a working-class woman with a growing family to be widowed.
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Does he agree that, if thatunfortunatecircumstancewere to come about, there might have to be yet another rethink?
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The concessions are very welcome and fair regarding death and the avoidance of a double tax in that ratherunfortunatecircumstance.
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Invariably when that happens there has been anunfortunatecircumstance.
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I am very glad to have elicited that statement, because it would have been a veryunfortunatecircumstance, and would have led to some feeling.
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It is anunfortunatecircumstancethat there is this congestion.
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He was the victim of anunfortunatecircumstancewhich ended up in the mincing machine of our court procedures.
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We shall look at the whole question of supervision of building materials, quality control and all the other matters that thisunfortunatecircumstanceraises.
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Given the grave difficulties that a party will face in such anunfortunatecircumstance, why is it essential to include such a barrier?
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There is one ratherunfortunatecircumstancein connection with this.
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That may be anunfortunatecircumstance, but it is worth weighing when considering the percentage by which commodities have risen.
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It is a matter ofunfortunatecircumstancethat, at least in some instances, the one may be able to impinge on the other.
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There is one particularlyunfortunatecircumstanceabout this situation.
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There was anunfortunatecircumstancein connection with two boys of 16 who were mentally unstable.
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It was owing to a mostunfortunatecircumstance.
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This is anunfortunatecircumstancewhich those of us who deal with own resources have to face.
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We are all agreed that we would not want anunfortunatecircumstanceto arise whereby a pilot might inadvertently contravene some other legislation.
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Only anunfortunatecircumstanceprevents my noble friend being here to explain again how the apportionment factor can be anomalous and even unjust.
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