predicament
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These events arrive matter-of-factly, as a kind of Human Predicament roll call.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2022
It’s part of a great tradition of American writing, the rangy, pop diagnostic manual of Our Current Predicament.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2012
The Little Coder’s Predicament arises from the following problem: We live in world of astonishingly advanced technologies, easy to use and all around us.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2012
The Human Predicament seems an overly ambitious undertaking for a man who has only two novels, and a collection of children's stories to his credit in 61 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Och, it’s nate to be captain or colonel, Divil a bit would I want to be higher; But to rust as a private, I think’s an infernal Predicament, surely,” says Private Maguire.
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
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