predicament
Example Sentences
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She’s hardly in a position to do much more than accept what’s going on as a grimmer version of her own dead-end predicament.
From Los Angeles Times
He foresaw the current predicament long before most others did, and he had the courage to confront it long before it was politically convenient to do so.
But others seemed to relish the predicament now facing Bailey and tens of thousands of fellow Britons residing in what many saw as a responsibility-free playground.
The last line in your letter sums up the predicament you’re in.
From MarketWatch
It’s not the stereotype on its own that is the problem, he says: “it’s the predicament that matters.”
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