In This Circumstance or Under This Circumstance?

Definition of 'under the circumstances/in the circumstances'
You can use in the circumstances or under the circumstances before or after a statement to indicate that you have considered the conditions affecting the situation before making the statement. Under the circumstances, a crash was unavoidable.

Under which circumstances or under what circumstances?

Also, in the circumstances. Given these conditions, such being the case, as in Under the circumstances we can't leave Mary out. This idiom uses circumstance in the sense of “a particular situation,” a usage dating from the late 1300s.

What is the meaning of under these circumstances?

In consideration of what is currently happening.

Sarah Jenkins

Sarah Jenkins

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Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.