dire
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With the situation increasingly dire, Cuba -- for decades targeted in US espionage -- last week took the extraordinary step of welcoming CIA Director John Ratcliffe for talks.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Eugène Ionesco’s “Exit the King,” now in revival at A Noise Within under the direction of Michael Michetti, revolves around a centuries-old king whose health is in as dire a state as his kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Then Amazon.com came along, and by 2019 Barnes & Noble was in dire shape.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
And if the outcome is particularly dire it’s thought that Prime Minister Keir Starmer will face a leadership challenge from within his party.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Embarrassingly, almost all of the traffic was the other way—scores of English joined the locals despite promises of dire punishment.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing dire
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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