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be in a quandary





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Look at the United States, and you will see a Federal Reserve that must now be in a quandary about whether to keep raising interest rates.

From The New Yorker Jan. 19, 2016

If that were taken, he would be in a quandary, for there would be little chance of his being able to make up the loss to his friend, the Western miner.

From The Erie Train Boy by Horatio Alger

I saw bright colors in stripes, and stars of blue that they seemed to be in a quandary how to place and how many to use.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris

It's so horrible to be in a quandary.

From The Second Chance by Nellie L. McClung

To be in a quandary: to be puzzled.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose




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