dicey
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It’s difficult to get one’s hopes up when it comes to the dicey state of Hollywood filmmaking, and even more difficult to keep them there.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Business schools are lowering the costs of advanced degrees to try to appeal to workers spooked by AI and a dicey job market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Slate’s Ian Prasad Philbrick wrote a fine piece about how this latest fad is dicey on both policy and political grounds.
From Slate ● May 2, 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
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
What may have started out as a good idea became too good as deals got dicier.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
But for hikers trapped near the eastern face of Everest, the return was much dicier.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
You don’t really want to hit a guardrail with a vehicle like that, but electrification can make things even dicier.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2024
Surely if plagiarism can ever be said “digito monstrari et dicier hic est,” it is here.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
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
This isn’t any kind of journalism, not even the diciest variety of supermarket tabloidism.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019
But Clement’s diciest moment came when Justice Elena Kagan faced him down.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2013
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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