vicissitudes

plural of vicissitude

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Recent Examples of vicissitudes Renaissance has prided itself on a debt-free history, despite the vicissitudes of performing arts fundraising. Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025 Mere knick-knacks, which have all disappeared with the vicissitudes of years. Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 But Hynes details life’s vicissitudes with poetic exactitude. Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicissitudes
Noun
  • Kruse and Fialko invested seven figures into rebuilding Priscilla’s brand, stabilizing her finances, settling her lawsuits, cleaning up numerous private family ordeals, and attempting to help Priscilla repair her relationship with her daughter.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Is the Hockomock League one of the toughest gauntlets in Massachusetts again?
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Amid the Mets' misfortunes, Michael Kay, a radio host and play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees, decided to weigh in.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Unimaginable misfortunes have the Ravens in this precarious situation, and certainly could continue.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Though his career was marked by flashes of brilliance, including another 1,400-yard rushing season in 2015, it was also marred by injuries and off-field challenges.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Economists warn the incoming administration faces immediate challenges, including securing fuel supplies and building coalitions in a fragmented legislature.
    Reuters 3 min ago, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Combine that display with Odegaard’s recent injury troubles, and Eze has played much more centrally since the City game.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Nationwide strikes and protests over Belgium’s reform plans caused flight disruptions at two major airports and troubles on public transport on Tuesday, with police there using tear gas and a water cannon to try to disperse crowds, The Associated Press reported.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At seventy, Padura is a voice of a generation that endured a long war in Angola and the privations that followed the Soviet collapse.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Since 2022, Russia repeatedly urged China to act quickly to save its economy from inevitable privations stemming from the collapse of its Western market.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Vicissitudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicissitudes. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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