precarious
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George Brown, another landowner opposed to rerouting, said he lives half a mile from the bluffs and questioned whether the erosion was as precarious as officials said it was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
In a climate that’s increasingly precarious for all arts organizations, opera houses are trying to figure out how to maintain a centuries-old tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
“In the meantime, restored crude-oil flows remain precarious and refinery crack spreads are likely to stay high.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Kim Jong Un's rise was faster and more precarious.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Message; movement; information; form; Darwin; Mendel; Morgan: all was writ into that precarious assemblage of molecules.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing precarious
Grade 11, List 3
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A Doll's House
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John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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