precarious
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Precarious and uncertain times make love stories even more seductive.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
"Precarious labour, youth unemployment, broken families - these aren't just plot devices, but the very struggles we face every day."
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
Taproot Theatre opens Margaret Raether’s “Sherlock Holmes and the Precarious Position” in May, and in addition to “Something’s Afoot,” the 5th Avenue Theatre also has “Clue,” coming in July.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024
Precarious accommodation, job losses, financial stress, and being away from their families, Baldassar says, have taken a toll.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2021
Precarious Tenant of that gay Retreat, Fann'd by pure gales on Hampstead's airy downs, Where filial troops for thee delighted wait, And their fair Mother's smile thy banquet crowns!
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna
Vocabulary lists containing precarious
Grade 11, List 3
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A Doll's House
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John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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