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  • adjective psychology Occurring in relation to a specific situation.
  • adjective grammar Expressing the location of things in comparison with one another, e.g. the word "to" in the phrase face to face.

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  • Plenty of it is situative, stemming from us being forced to do things we're unable to delegate to technology or make someone else do for us - ironing, defrosting the freezer, fending off cold callers trying to get us to switch our energy supplier, and so on.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

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