Antonyms for circumstancescir·cum·stances

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1. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portionnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, fortune, fate, peck, mint, band, plenty, lot, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, portion, parcel, dowry, spate, muckle, mass, constituent, pile, share, good deal, stack, chance, luck, destiny, deal, serving, dowery, dower, percentage, caboodle, hazard, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, component, slew, heap, mess, part, bunch, sight, mountain, draw, helping, component part, set, great deal, pot, circle

2. circumstancesnoun

   a person's financial situation (good or bad)

   "he found himself in straitened circumstances"

   Synonyms:
   luck, portion, fortune, destiny, fate, lot

How to use circumstances in a sentence?

1. Commissioner Sunila Thomas George:

   There are circumstances where places of worship hold activities at their facilities or in their buildings that are purely secular events.

2. Michelle Avan:

   In my son's case, they were all facing special circumstances… and those are being dismissed. They were all facing the death penalty or life without parole and now they're only facing 25 years with the possibility of parole, to me, that's a slap in the face. So I can see how the Avan family is upset about this. There are no consequences anymore.

3. Justin Trudeau:

   One of the things we have to remember is China is the second largest economy in the world and continues to grow. We are going to have to – in some circumstances – engage constructively with China like we did around the conference on biodiversity that we hosted with them in Montreal, there’s other places where we’re going to have to be stiff competition to China in terms of market access (and) in terms of investments in the Global South. We need to be able to show that the Western democracies are there to make those investments and they’re as competitive to China.

4. Maurice Blackburn:

   Australian businesses and investors, particularly medium to large importers, exporters, institutional investors and businesses with operations overseas, have been affected by the distortion of the FX market by these banks, such cartel behavior cheats Australian businesses in circumstances where they may already have been vulnerable to currency fluctuations.

5. Jesse Helton:

   What we know is this impacts child abuse and neglect permeates all areas of our society. It impacts the community, schools, churches and it affects hospitals, and in this case, emergency departments, too, and the departments need to know how to properly care for kids in these circumstances and how to collect evidence.

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