predicament

You’re never too old, and you’re not the only reader with this predicament.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Andrea, a 32-year-old mother who declined to give her surname because she felt ashamed of her predicament, tried to reinvent herself by starting a catering business after the stationary shop where she worked shut down.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Its predicament speaks to the intense competition that defines the race for AI supremacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

In the course of a whirlwind four weeks, every wing of the parliamentary Labour Party has anointed him as the only person able to reverse their electoral predicament.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Sing of its two cartridges, one for typing and one for correcting, that so eloquently represented her predicament, poised between the print of genetics and the Wite-Out of surgery.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Some faced worse storage predicaments than I did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

Myanmar has also been hit by a devastating earthquake in March and international funding cuts, that have left vulnerable people in desperate and dangerous predicaments.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025

When you’re barely making ends meet, you can only wish to be any degree well-off and, therefore, be open to watching why that life comes with its predicaments, mainly having to do with ego.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 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