novel situation

collocation in English

meaningsofnovelandsituation

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novel
adjective
uk
/ˈnɒv.əl/us
/ˈnɑː.vəl/
new and original, not like anything ...
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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 ofnovelandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Welles reacted to thisnovelsituationby rejecting both of them.
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Ignorance of the social code in thenovelsituationconstituted a risk, of behaving in an inappropriate or socially unacceptable way.
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The fact that there has been no war and thus neither victors nor vanquished in the last two years has created anovelsituation.
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And thus each linguistic act that each of us performs is to a certain degree creative, innovative, made anew for anovelsituation.
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According to game theory, in anovelsituationagents attempt to determine what sort of game they are playing, and adjust their behavior accordingly.
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Children of depressed mothers who also had elevated internalizing symptoms may have perceived the laboratory situation as threatening and themselves as less able to cope with thenovelsituation.
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Children in the present study were familiar with the laboratory setting and thus, may not have felt the uncertainty of being in a morenovelsituation.
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A very important andnovelsituationwill arise when capital grants are used for or biased towards conservation.
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It would be anovelsituation, but if it arose we should face it in our proper democratic fashion.
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This is an entirelynovelsituation, and it is entirely contrary to what is happening to local government in the rest of the country.
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I apologise for speaking at such length but this is a rather complex andnovelsituation.
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There is a problem in that we are here faced with a completelynovelsituation.
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They probably adapt themselves to it, but it is anovelsituationfor them.
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It is an extremelynovelsituation, and it has stolen upon us in so stealthy a fashion that we have scarcely recognised its arrival.
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They had to deal with an entirelynovelsituation; we appreciate that, and we do not want to complain too much about it.
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I understand from my legal friends that that is anovelsituationin the law.
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The present-day circumstances of the use of schools for community purposes is anovelsituationcompared with a few years ago.
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Here, though, we have anovelsituationof great gravity.
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To have cast-iron safeguards against its own parent is surely a somewhatnovelsituation.
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But we need to recognise that this is anovelsituation.
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