dire
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But the roughly 2,500 who remain include hundreds of unaccompanied minors who are enduring dire conditions with limited access to food, water, shelter and sanitation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Gazans who face dire humanitarian conditions and continuing airstrikes are frustrated by the lack of progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The tents are a stark indication of the dire financial state of the hospital, whose leaders say it could be forced to close if it doesn’t find a way to consistently bring in more money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
This dire situation is projected to get only moderately better over the next year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The circumstances were dire, to say the least.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Rademacher said the showers will continue into at least Monday, with the midweek looking a bit direr.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
The TV series balances humor and tragedy like the film did; however, it’s clear in the episodes that things are direr now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
With Christmas now just months away, supermarkets are warning that the situation could become direr.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021
The situation gets even direr when considering the threats to children, who can't get the shot until they turn 12.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2021
She thought she saw in his face hints that his soul had once waged a direr battle than any she had known,—to know, to be.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
Chris Young grew up in Clarksville, Tenn., in the direst imaginable circumstances — unimaginable, in fact, to many of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
A recent drought saw the three direst years on record, which dropped reservoirs around the state to dangerously low levels and prompted mandatory rationing and even caused some hydroelectric power plants to shut down.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Unison's head of local government Mike Short said town halls were in the "direst of states".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
By contrast, Biden spoke of his “obsessive optimism” on Wednesday, cutting the figure of a man who has previously been considered politically endangered only to defy at least the direst predictions.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2022
He looked about him, saw no friend—saw he was abandoned—saw only the muskets of direst enemy—smiled, and offered to sell us the clothes press for a guinea.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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