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predicament

[pri-dik-uh-muhnt, pred-i-kuh-muhnt] / prɪˈdɪk ə mənt, ˈprɛd ɪ kə mənt /


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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

“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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