unusual situation

collocation in English

meaningsofunusualandsituation

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unusual
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈjuː.ʒu.əl/us
/ʌnˈjuː.ʒu.əl/
different from others of the same type in a way that is surprising, interesting, ...
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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 ofunusualandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Merchants, both retail and wholesale, found themselves in theunusualsituationof being the enforcement agents for a system of regulation meant to control them.
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Such data are required to explain theunusualsituationof four similar-sized congeners in sympatry.
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Thisunusualsituationcreates strong subjective feelings that we believe can be exploited for enhancing musical creativity and for teaching musical skills in general.
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In addition, subject markers are closer to the stem than object markers, a typologicallyunusualsituation.
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Rather, our concern is that participants have a chance to become familiar with what is, under even the best of circumstances, anunusualsituation.
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Such anunusualsituationis undoubtedly a big challenge to the relations that need to be established between state authorities and citizens in rural as well as urban areas.
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We are in theunusualsituationthat hundreds of thousands of people are threatened with a repetition of this industrial action next week.
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Also, we are in anunusualsituationin that an independent inquiry is being conducted into these matters.
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It is a veryunusualsituationto go back retrospectively and alter conditions of service of a large class of persons.
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There are two consequences of thisunusualsituation.
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That is anunusualsituation, but there we are.
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These are the justifications for a measure of this sort, put forward to deal in a balanced fashion with a happilyunusualsituation.
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It would create a difficult andunusualsituationfor the future.
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If that is correct, we face a veryunusualsituation.
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So this is by no means anunusualsituation.
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This is intended in part as a practical response to a notunusualsituation.
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This is anunusualsituation, whereby we have a nationalised industry in the course of transition from one kind of body into another.
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It is unusual, and was framed to meet anunusualsituation—unusual in two ways.
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Can you give some reassurance on that in this highlyunusualsituation?
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If he sees the circumstances in which thisunusualsituationwas brought about, he might have a little more sympathy for me.
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