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insecurity

[in-si-kyoor-i-tee] / ˌɪn sɪˈkyʊər ɪ ti /


NOUN
danger
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Demographers are skeptical that subsidies can move the needle much against forces like high education costs, job insecurity, delayed marriage, and shifting gender norms.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Instead, it led to a world of job insecurity and wages too low to support most people, let alone a family.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Elmer Rice’s “The Adding Machine,” an expressionist classic on automation and worker insecurity, speaks directly to an age in which livelihoods are threatened by AI innovation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

But insecurity has blighted much of rural Nigeria.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton’s incredible energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis