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quandary

[kwon-duh-ree, -dree] / ˈkwɒn də ri, -dri /


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Unlike Saturday, a review could not save Root, and England have a real quandary over how to counter-act Henry and New Zealand gloveman Tom Blundell.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

That’s the quandary faced by 49,000 residents living on the California side of Lake Tahoe, mostly in the city of South Lake Tahoe.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

However, he acknowledged YouTube is a particular quandary: its shifting sea of content makes real-time filtering nearly impossible, for Google or school districts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

OpenAI has been trying to build up its Claude Code competitor, Codex, and sees a window of opportunity in Anthropic’s quandary.

From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2026

Prolix, quartz, quandary, sylpb, rhythm, all the old tricks with consonants I could dream up or remember.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

You wrote in from inboxes and DMs and social feeds with questions about everything from drink quandaries to annoying cousins.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025

His god lends a hand in many obstacles, he said, including infertility, relationship quandaries, financial worries and academic struggles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2025

Her sparked some of my first reflections about whether tech innovation is inherently good or bad for society, and helped validate my early moral quandaries and panic at the time.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2025

It may not have been enough to elevate him from the quandaries of politics or shield him from some of the failures of his career.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

For Howard, they would present some of the most difficult quandaries of his public life.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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