predicament
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But Strategy’s predicament is worse than it appears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Perhaps one man writing it leads to other men identifying with the individual’s predicament and following up with a letter of their own.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“I didn’t know Pinky had so many fans!” laughs Valdez while describing the predicament he was in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Cadwalladr read part of a letter from Wynn-Williams' lawyer, explaining their understanding of her legal predicament.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
This predicament was made worse for Hoover when Maytag abruptly abandoned ship and seized Penelope as his partner.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
Just as Murrin was trying to get the Supreme Court’s attention, the top Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Senate Finance Committee unveiled a bill to fix predicaments like the one Murrin faced.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
There's plenty of evidence from his own track record that he won't give up - but history is less on his side when it comes to governments in predicaments like this.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Some faced worse storage predicaments than I did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Aditi Hariharan, a UC Davis undergraduate and president of the UC Student Assn., said she believed other solutions to UC’s financial predicaments were possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Completely unarmed, the Florentines engaged ten thousand French soldiers to take Pisa: such a plan endangered them more than any of their previous predicaments.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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