Synonyms for circumstances
cir·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

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1. • Condition
   • Possession

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1. circumstancesnoun

   Synonyms:
   situation, condition, position, state of affairs, pecuniary standing

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1. List of paraphrases for "circumstances":

   conditions, situations, cases, situation, circumstance, case, instances, contexts, facts

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1. David Pralong:

   Most investors can't make any investment decision up until the Brexit vote, this allowed us to get access to assets that would have been difficult to secure under normal circumstances.

2. Sarah Palin:

   Our families couldn't be happier for Bristol and Dakota! We're honored to welcome Dakota into our family. He's an American hero and patriot whose service to our country -- like all his fellow Medal of Honor recipients -- has been above and beyond the call of duty; but even more important is he's a good and kind man who loves Bristol and Tripp, and is loved by them, yes, God working behind the scenes to turn beauty from ashes. Had tough circumstances in their lives not occurred, and had they reacted differently to those circumstances, they'd have never met.

3. Judge Steve Roder:

   I accept the submission that in the circumstances there is no reasonable excuse for Mr Tinkler to have not appeared today.

4. John Draper:

   Everybody is interested in making sure we can shift…what has been historically a public safety response to mental health emergencies to a public health response to mental health emergencies, because police don't want to be responding to mental health emergencies unnecessarily, and neither does EMS. Those resources should be reserved for public safety circumstances or medically dangerous circumstances, and that is very rarely the case with mental health crises.

5. Lee Saunders:

   We can't hold our nose or ignore what's happening right now. When you have really bad things going on, that are clearly, clearly irresponsible, are not what police stand for in general, you got to deal with it, the union has to play a role, you got to do it for the benefit of the officers trying to do their jobs every single day under difficult circumstances. And you've got to deal with those who take advantage of the situation.