state of affairs
sta·teo·faf·fairs
noun
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
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