quandary

Example Sentences

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“Many times we have strong reasons to keep something like this secret. And I can’t tell you the reasons without giving away the secrets. Quite a quandary, isn’t it?”

From Literature

This episode is unlikely to help resolve the Liberal Party's quandaries.

From BBC

It’s an awful quandary because part of me knows that I’m a horrible secret keeper and have no business signing such a document, but another part of me is entirely intrigued.

From Literature

Tarr followed with “The Man From London,” which he and Krasznahorkai adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, about a seaside railway signalman who confronts a moral quandary involving a murder mystery.

From Los Angeles Times

The uncertainty is a quandary for the Federal Reserve.

From Barron's