precarious
Example Sentences
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Fiscal watchdogs have warned that the spending trends will leave California in a precarious position if the stock market tanks and tax receipts bottom out.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
"If it wasn't for the fuel scenario, they would have been okay through the summer, beyond the summer I would have said it was still precarious."
From BBC • May 2, 2026
But things may be more precarious than normal right now.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026
The situation for the nation’s farmers and producers is precarious, with a bleak outlook raising grim questions.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
Built along a gentle slope of the mountain, Bithynios wasn’t a precarious, cliffside sort of place.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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