How to Use vicissitude in a Sentence

vicissitude

noun
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  • Getting to bed and waking at the same time each day helps buffer me from the vicissitudes of life and my illness.
    — David Leite, Fox News, 31 May 2017
  • The treatise is one of the great meditations on the meaning of life in all its vicissitudes.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • Yet the thought of the vicissitudes of her suffering never seemed to register with him.
    — Anna Pasternak, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2019
  • Why else would people leave the warmth of home for the vicissitudes and expense of attending concerts?
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • More investors are likely hoping for a deal than to endure the vicissitudes of a solo heart drug launch.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Part of the reason Opendoor is expanding to new markets is to avoid the vicissitudes of the business.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • Colorado Rockies pitchers are used to the vicissitudes of life.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The evolution of the vast fortress looming above the bunker embodies the vicissitudes of Balkan history.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • How friendships survive and ultimately nourish us through the vicissitudes of life gives this play its soul.
    — Marcus Crowder, sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2017
  • This tragic tale is made all the more poignant by the many highs and lows in the narrative and the utter helplessness of the protagonists in the face of destiny’s vicissitudes.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Our server, clearly versed in the vicissitudes of dining with children, puts those orders in right away.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • More humble, more accepting of vicissitudes of his sport, and eager to learn from his mistakes.
    — Steve Douglas, The Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Angel hoped to help Greenwell start a tree-planting business that could free him from the vicissitudes of day labor and help him build a future.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The reason for returning the dogs to a different form of captivity has to do, a little bit, with the vicissitudes of show business.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The vicissitudes of geopolitics are of little concern to Huang, though.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 31 July 2019
  • The chipmaker is more exposed to Apple’s vicissitudes than most.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The vicissitudes of public opinion that so worried the Framers then tend to become the determinants of policy.
    — Mario Loyola, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And most growers prefer a steady local workforce with ongoing knowledge of the vicissitudes of particular crops and climates.
    — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
  • But this summer and fall will bring, depending on the vicissitudes of publishing industry timing, the last of those Obama-era thrillers.
    — Charles Finch, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • His reasoning, presumably: to sidestep economic discontent and the vicissitudes of the youth vote.
    — Elmira Bayrasli, The New Republic, 20 June 2018
  • Instead, the vicissitudes of modern-day remembrance err helplessly between death and death by chocolate.
    — Yuliya Komska, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
  • For provincials like my mother and me, Moscow meant a small break from the daily vicissitudes of late-period Soviet life.
    — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The reader feels less and less interested in the narrative vicissitudes, and might well start glazing over in those passages of argumentation in which each thing is revealed to be its opposite.
    — Sven Birkerts, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • This nation continued to exist beyond the vicissitudes of history and political change.
    — Vikram Sampath, Quartz India, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The reasons amount to an obstacle course built from policy mistakes, economic vicissitudes, and prejudice.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 June 2018
  • The vicissitudes of Kafka’s identity remain a matter of academic debate.
    — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The question, when the story is being told onscreen or onstage, is never whether these vicissitudes will be included but how brutally, and to what representational end.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
  • If the world has any chance of feeding the 10 billion people who soon will occupy it, such techniques to manage the vicissitudes of agriculture are essential.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 30 May 2018
  • For decades, America’s satellites had circled Earth at a largely safe remove from the vicissitudes of geopolitics.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
  • The vicissitudes of the Middle East—not to mention American politics—have humbled wiser experts than us.
    — Daniel Benaim, New Republic, 19 Jan. 2018

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