vicissitudesnoun [ plural ]
uk/vɪˈsɪs.ɪ.tʃuːdz/us/vɪˈsɪs.ə.tuːdz/formalchanges that happen at different times during the life or development of someone or something, especially those that result in conditions being worse:
Losing your job is just one of the vicissitudes of life.
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- fluctuate
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- perversion
- punctuated equilibrium
- sea change
- shake-up
- speciation
- step change
- tide
- twist
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