dire
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Dire straits at present emphasize the fragility of global supply chains, with extremely negative implications for inflation in a deglobalized world.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
Dire vaccine shortages amid a surge in cholera cases forced a halt to preventative immunisation efforts in 2022, and a move to a one-dose strategy from the usual two in outbreak emergency responses.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
Dire warnings about hunger spreading in Gaza continued on Tuesday, with UN-backed global food security experts warning the worst-case scenario of famine is "currently playing out" in the Gaza Strip.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025
It’s an even farther cry from TV’s more obvious epic journey tales — no warring clans, no Dire wolves or vows of vengeance, no magical rings.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2024
Dire and awful dangers and miscellaneous horrors, even to being carried off by maladies among mangles in an atmosphere stiff with mosquitoes, but not that!
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
Vocabulary lists containing dire
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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