Vicissitudes

Synonyms for "vicissitudes" (12 found)

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Closest matches (3)

chain reaction
Noun(2 words)
changefate shifts

Strong matches (3)

ins and outs

Related words (6)

Noun(4 words)
reversalsturning pointsups and downsvariation
vicious circlevicissitude

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7 entries
character arc twistseconomic vicissitudesmoral turning pointspersonal vicissitudesplot reversalspolitical vicissitudesseasonal vicissitudes

Collocations

6 entries
economic vicissitudesfate's vicissitudespersonal vicissitudespolitical vicissitudesseasonal vicissitudesvicissitudes of fortune

Derivations

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When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.

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Japanese may be different from other ethnicities due to more use of the dextral brain. The sinistral brain predominates occidental vicissitudes.

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Perhaps due to his experience of the team's vicissitudes, the long-time veteran was unperturbed.

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The life of Sam Bolger reads like a romance, tinged with all the vicissitudes of life, livened by the carefree days when gold was more plentiful in Cripple Creek than to-day, shadowed by more sorrows than falls to the lot of the average man.

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