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precariously

adverb as in dangerously

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In a statement posted on its website Wednesday, health agency Anvisa said it initially got “precarious data” on a “grave” event, which led it to suspend the study late Monday.

From Fortune

Unlike Sun Country, YRC was in a precarious spot long before the pandemic hit.

Proud as employees were of how the group adapted to the pandemic, they understood the precarious position Great Big Story’s business was likely in.

From Digiday

You’re seeing increasing amounts of precarious employment, increased contract work, and a decreased full-time labor market.

Living month to month is precarious, and that’s just as true for businesses as it is for people.

From Ozy

But there are many more people balancing precariously on the verge of indigence.

On the right side of the fall line, but precariously close to the precipice.

Those women who are not alone are often only precariously coupled.

Spain is reeling precariously, Greece is prepping for another make-or-break election—and Germany is still insisting on austerity.

The Daily Beast later witnessed the dramatic rescue of a third survivor precariously lifted from the wreckage Sunday morning.

Overhanging the pass was a huge boulder, balanced precariously on the edge of the jutting cliff.

She was living precariously on translation, which could be done, she maintained, when you hadn't any head at all.

By far the largest piece of granite had been the last to drop, and he saw that it was poised precariously on some smaller lumps.

On the wet top rail, precariously perching, the figure slipped and sprawled forward in the miry yard.

The hatch had slid to the deck's edge and was held precariously by the doubtful strength of the straining rail.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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