fortunate circumstance
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffortunateandcircumstance
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fortunate
adjective
uk/ˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us/ˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/
lucky:
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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 offortunateandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thefortunatecircumstanceof volunteered rhymes allows phonemic awareness and rhyming abilities to be documented in very young children.
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I thought that was a veryfortunatecircumstance.
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It is a reduction of the compensation paid, and it is due to thefortunatecircumstancethat the tenant holds other land.
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It all sounds rather like a toofortunatecircumstanceto be acceptable.
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He is the only one in thatfortunatecircumstance.
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I think that is a veryfortunatecircumstance, because otherwise some difficulty might have arisen in that case.
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This is a mostfortunatecircumstance.
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That is a veryfortunatecircumstance.
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Thisfortunatecircumstanceallowed a full-size wooden mock-up to be constructed in a remarkably quick time.
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These fortunate circumstances meant that the company could pay its shareholders their capital back and even distribute a per annum dividend of 2 per cent.
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But even rational-agency capacity in full flowering, possessed by a capable, intelligent human in fortunate circumstances, is reasonably assessed at some large but finite value.
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There can be less fortunate circumstances than that.
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That cost will be put on to people who are in less fortunate circumstances than most people in the community.
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Two of them made their debut under particularly fortunate circumstances.
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I have been accused of denying to children born in less fortunate circumstances the benefits of advanced education.
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It is as if they do not want to use the fortunate circumstances of the present, when we still have quite substantial oil revenues.
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I know that he has farmed since the beginning of this war under peculiarly fortunate circumstances, with peculiar advantages.
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There will not be any racial discrimination except on the part of certain political parties whose whole philosophy depends on attacking people in less fortunate circumstances than themselves.
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It provides an opportunity to examine exactly what we can do for others in less fortunate circumstances in some of the harshest parts of the world.
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