worsening situation

collocation in English

meaningsofworseningandsituation

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worsening
adjective
uk
/ˈwɜː.sən.ɪŋ/us
/ˈwɝː.sən.ɪŋ/
becoming ...
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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 ofworseningandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The bad news is that the results show a tendency to increase risk in aworseningsituation.
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Several issues dominated discussion, the most important being a crisis in water management and diminishing resources as well as the local municipalities' inability to manage theworseningsituation.
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But we face aworseningsituation, not just next winter, but next summer.
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Fine words do no good—only deeds will cure theworseningsituation, to which more and more: solicitors daily allude.
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At least then he could have attempted to avert what is becoming aworseningsituation.
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This is one of the most important single elements in theworseningsituationeconomically and financially in the past decade or so.
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They may well lessen, as we know from medical evidence, as a person adapts to theworseningsituation.
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To that extent it is not aworseningsituation.
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The laws are not being enforced, and there is evidence of aworseningsituation.
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In a rapidly changing and possiblyworseningsituationthere is an outstanding requirement to be continually looking at regional policy for refinements and improvements.
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My starting point, therefore, is theworseningsituation.
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By any reckoning that is a low figure and it is the background against which we must view theworseningsituation.
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We have asked for assisted area status, but, despite theworseningsituation, we have been denied it.
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The reasons for theworseningsituationare many and complex.
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All the evidence, as my noble friend has said, points to aworseningsituation.
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Does he not think, in view of theworseningsituation, that it would be better if men with considerably more training were sent out there?
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There is a third reason for theworseningsituation, and that is the decline in our invisible exports for 1954.
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That suggested the completely unacceptable prospect for the executive of presiding over a graduallyworseningsituation.
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Nevertheless, the positive fact remains that we have aworseningsituation.
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