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predicament

[pri-dik-uh-muhnt, pred-i-kuh-muhnt] / prɪˈdɪk ə mənt, ˈprɛd ɪ kə mənt /


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Ironically, Warner was in a similar predicament last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

That momentum helps explain investors’ current predicament: The yield on the 10-year Treasury note this week hit highs not seen in nearly 20 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"He recognises he is entirely to blame for his predicament," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Fanning’s Wendy isn’t reflective — she’s reactive — and we have a better view of her predicament than she does.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

When he became a father, he no longer even thought much about his predicament as a gay man living a life that was in part a pretense.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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

This is just one of the many predicaments Geraint John has found himself in since losing his wife Deb to pancreatic cancer two-and-a-half years ago.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 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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