circumstance

CEFRB2

/ˈsɜːkəmst(ə)ns/

noun

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noun
A fact or condition that affects a situation.
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noun
Extra detail
An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status).

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Extra meanings

Evasive or indirect language; circumlocution.
Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.
Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

In context

They are in comfortable circumstance.
She went missing in somewhat spooky circumstances.
The report should focus on to the current circumstances of the organisation, to help us find a way to grow in the future.

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The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
1819, Washington Irving, The Broken Heart
Frank muttered something. Tidings had in some shape reached his ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.
1858, Anthony Trollope, “Matrimonial Prospects”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 184
While also taxing Ferrein with the same motives, Diderot's account of his doings is much more circumstanced than La Mettrie's, and also much more amusing, thanks to the interpolation of the «bijoux» motif.
1949, Diderot Studies, volume 11, page 170
The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]
1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace, →OL
I have ſeen Two or Three antique Buſts of Alexander in the ſame Air and Poſture, and am apt to think the Sculptor had in his Thoughts the Conqueror's weeping for new Worlds, or ſome other the like Circumſtance of his History.
1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 413

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From Middle English circumstaunce, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia.