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vicissitude
noun
A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
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noun
A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
“The project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research”
noun
Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
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The project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research
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