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- adjective psychology
Occurring in relation to a specificsituation . - adjective grammar Expressing the
location of things incomparison 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.
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