STATE OF AFFAIRS

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : situation

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