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dicey

[dahy-see] / ˈdaɪ si /


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While “Drag Race” is no longer a niche program, the art of drag remains contentious, and giving a wide release to a film like this is both confident and dicey.

From Salon Jun. 10, 2026

Last week, we asked you to tell us about your biggest money mistakes — and you opened up about everything from dicey stock-market bets to spending habits that got out of control.

From MarketWatch Apr. 7, 2026

So with things getting dicey in north London, we're looking at the most surprising clubs to drop since the competition began in 1992.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

And these are a little dicey to talk about, because these are unverified tips.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2026

The bathroom worked “most of the time,” according to Kev, “but if it ever gets dicey, there’s always Old Reliable.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

That would make its cash flow issue even dicier, though.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

But the uncertainty about when this war will end, and what it will continue to do to oil prices, makes it a dicier proposition to try and time a bottom.

From Barron's Mar. 21, 2026

But Mitchell did step in during some of Wuthering Heights' dicier scenes to make sure the star was safe.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

The director of “Tangerine,” “The Florida Project” and “Red Rocket” excels at thrusting subcultures onto the screen, the dicier, the better.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2025

Moore liked always "digito monstrari et dicier, 'Hic est'"; and his Journal abounds with records of his ingenuous satisfaction in such tributes.

From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Nor will Sir Keir’s diciest moments politically over the coming months necessarily all be a result of big tax and spend decisions he makes.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2024

But the diciest bit may have been an extended riff about Down Syndrome, beginning with Gillis saying that he is sometimes mistaken for having it based on his appearance.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2024

And don’t forget the evidently boundless career potential of Rami Malek, the only man eligible to assume the diciest role in Hollywood: Michael Jackson’s ghost.

From Slate Mar. 11, 2019

This isn’t any kind of journalism, not even the diciest variety of supermarket tabloidism.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2019

Perhaps the diciest situation is in Dallas, where prevailing opinion is the Cowboys have tons of ability on the field, very little of it away from the field.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2012




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