dicey
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His fellow traitors clearly wanted to be supportive, but things were getting dicey.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The resulting intimacy is appropriate for the play—and the $20 ticket price is all but unheard-of—but the sight lines can be dicey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
While “Drag Race” is no longer a niche program, the art of drag remains contentious, and giving a wide release to a film like this is both confident and dicey.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
Slate’s Ian Prasad Philbrick wrote a fine piece about how this latest fad is dicey on both policy and political grounds.
From Slate ● May 2, 2026
The bathroom worked “most of the time,” according to Kev, “but if it ever gets dicey, there’s always Old Reliable.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
What may have started out as a good idea became too good as deals got dicier.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
But Mitchell did step in during some of Wuthering Heights' dicier scenes to make sure the star was safe.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
A December rate cut “is a little dicier than markets have it right now. You’re hanging a lot on the slowdown in nonfarm payrolls,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
You don’t really want to hit a guardrail with a vehicle like that, but electrification can make things even dicier.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2024
Surely if plagiarism can ever be said “digito monstrari et dicier hic est,” it is here.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
Nor will Sir Keir’s diciest moments politically over the coming months necessarily all be a result of big tax and spend decisions he makes.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024
When they did in Thursday’s third quarter, their lead grew during what have been the Clippers’ diciest stretches all season — the minutes that George sits for rest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
Steward, 56, had one of the diciest gigs in all of Trump World.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
This isn’t any kind of journalism, not even the diciest variety of supermarket tabloidism.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019
As NBC’s Dan Hicks described it, the 100-meter butterfly has been “the diciest of Phelps' individual events throughout his career.”
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2012
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