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English Dictionary: state of affairs by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
state of affairs
n
  1. 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
    Synonym(s): situation, state of affairs
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