Synonyms for state of affairs
state of affairs

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1. situation, state of affairsnoun

   the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time

   "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt

   Synonyms:
   position, spot, site, post, office, situation, berth, billet, place

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1. Mike Turner:

   Yet in most areas of the world we have no idea which drugs are being sold to whom and for what purpose. This is an appalling state of affairs, we cannot hope to stop bacteria becoming resistant to drugs unless we have simple, basic information in place.

2. Kristie Small:

   I'm 100 % positive that is why I got fired, i think that is a bad state of affairs when someone in his position can be so brazen and so bold to do something like this.

3. De Baca:

   He probably should never have done what he did, i think [Reagan] was dreaming. There was no enforcement. Then you have Obama coming in with protecting them instead of stopping them at the border. ... He has turned out to be a real sad state of affairs.

4. Pete Buttigieg:

   I don't know if Donald Trump felt it necessary to pull out a sharpie and change the map, I don't know if one of his aides felt they had to do that to protect Donald Trump ego. No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country, look, when the presidency has been reduced to this, all of us are diminished because the presidency is supposed to be something we all look up to, even if we disagree with the President... what we're seeing there is literally pathetic.

5. Brene Brown:

   Conflict transformation rather than...conflict resolution. To me, the latter suggests going back to a previous state of affairs, and has a connotation that there may be a winner or a loser. [Conflict transformation has] the opportunity to create something new.