predicament
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Ironically, Warner was in a similar predicament last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Despite managing just one victory in eight Premier League matches this term, the predicament at the club is not seen as being entirely Carrick's fault by the board.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Along San Clemente’s 4.7 miles of shoreline, coastal erosion has been a persistent and expensive predicament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Smith Debnam, a law firm with offices in North and South Carolina, has an opinion on such a predicament.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Nan and I had a Relocation Rule for this kind of predicament: When something is totally new, pretend it isn’t.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Just as Murrin was trying to get the Supreme Court’s attention, the top Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Senate Finance Committee unveiled a bill to fix predicaments like the one Murrin faced.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
There's plenty of evidence from his own track record that he won't give up - but history is less on his side when it comes to governments in predicaments like this.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Some faced worse storage predicaments than I did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Such postseason predicaments haven’t always broke Roberts’ way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
At least the heat had less bite and the humidity had dropped to tolerable levels, so I was able to hang out on the sidewalk and think about all my predicaments.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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