predicament
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"I don't know how people don't recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
You’re never too old, and you’re not the only reader with this predicament.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The Hmong American couple hadn’t expected to be in this predicament when they started the farm in 2021 as a retirement project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
IBM’s current predicament is especially galling given it was once at the forefront of AI with Watson, a natural-language computer processing system that won “Jeopardy!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The officer stared back at them blankly as they explained their predicament, and then he cut them off.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
Setting a murder mystery on an exclusive cruise isn't enough to make its predicaments distinctive.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2024
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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