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cir·cum·stances
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Princeton's WordNet
fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion(noun)
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
"whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
circumstances(noun)
a person's financial situation (good or bad)
"he found himself in straitened circumstances"
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Circumstances
"Circumstances" is the second track on progressive rock band Rush's 1978 album Hemispheres. Lyrically, it is an autobiographical account, written by Peart, about the time he spent living in England, and his eventual disillusionment with his then-current occupations. Musically, it's a hard-hitting rock song, complete with power-chords and riffs, similar to much of their early 70s albums. It also features a keyboard break, near the middle of the song, similar to the one in "The Trees," supplied by Geddy Lee's Oberheim 8-voice Polyphonic Synthesizer, backed by Taurus pedals, Neil Peart's orchestral bells and a simple, soft chord progression by Alex Lifeson, before breaking back into the song's hard rock feel. It was only played a handful of times in concert, on the Tour of the Hemispheres from late 1978 to early 1979, before the 2007 Snakes & Arrows Tour when it was played every night in the first set of the band's 3 hour live show.
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Rank popularity for the word 'circumstances' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #950
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Rank popularity for the word 'circumstances' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1404
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of circumstances in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of circumstances in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of circumstances in a Sentence
Who is mad enough to believe that under these circumstances in Syria, anybody can hold elections? several millions of Syrians are outside Syria, some of them in refugee camps in some countries. Inside Syria there are millions who have left their houses, their lives, seeking safety.
Unless there is a written contract limiting the circumstances (in which) an employee can be fired, an employer may fire someone without cause, for any or no reason, as long as it's not an impermissible reason, such as discussing terms and conditions of employment, discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, in some states sexual orientation, etc..
Japan and South Korea have spats while the world's economy is slowing down. Investors are looking to what kind of guidance companies will provide under such circumstances.
Life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.
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- omstændighederDanish
- περιστάσειςGreek
- circunstanciasSpanish
- موقعیتPersian
- keadaanIndonesian
- circunstânciasPortuguese
- обстоятельстваRussian
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