ordinary circumstance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofordinaryandcircumstance
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ordinary
adjective
uk/ˈɔː.dən.əri/us/ˈɔːr.dən.er.i/
not different or special or unexpected in any ...
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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 ofordinaryandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Each individual's genome cannot, underordinarycircumstance, be altered.
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But this is not a case ofordinarycircumstance.
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We understand that the practicalordinarycircumstancewill be that a warrant sale will take place in an auction room.
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It is noordinarycircumstance.
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I have cited figures illustrating the litigious trend, but they were those gathered under ordinary circumstances.
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In ordinary circumstances, that is a genuine worry.
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A, in ordinary circumstances, could or should have been able to do s and should have known it.
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They are in all probability the greatest threats to individual security in ordinary circumstances.
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One may at times write lines not easy to sing which would not be written in ordinary circumstances.
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His reason is that if a constraint does embody a regularity occurring in the environment, it will remain hidden in ordinary circumstances.
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What legal rights, if any, this fact ought to convey on them under ordinary circumstances is an open question that need not be resolved here.
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These temperatures are well beyond those to which rubber would have been exposed in ordinary circumstances.
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For connected-wing configurations, in ordinary circumstances we can take a1 = 0 and the branch surface disappears.
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It seems likely then, that the value of the integral will, under ordinary circumstances, be about 4, the probable error lying well within a factor of two.
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First, while each of us is born with about 100,000 genes that, under ordinary circumstances, do not change, the expression of these genes on behavior is dynamic.
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Yes; he is entitled to pension or gratuity, under ordinary circumstances, whether his disability is caused by wound or disease.
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I often did that, making it plain that under ordinary circumstances he would go to prison.
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Under ordinary circumstances, when crime is detected and proved, the person who has committed the crime has to expiate it for a term prescribed judicially.
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What is the value of repairs under ordinary circumstances?
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There is no intention of using troops on work of this kind under ordinary circumstances to the exclusion of civilian workmen.
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