dire
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The situation in Gaza was dire and could blow up in everyone’s faces, Kamel told the Israelis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
If Fiala comes back early and healthy and if the team adapts quickly to the change in style, those predictions may prove overly dire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The refiners still in operation are racing to supply a market in dire need of diesel, which powers all manner of heavy-duty vehicles and machinery, while also scrambling to procure enough crude shipments to process.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Given the dire state of the justice system in Haiti, the onus has been on US prosecutors to bring the detainees to Florida to try the cases there.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Rademacher said the showers will continue into at least Monday, with the midweek looking a bit direr.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
It’s just that recent-years playoffs might have made Georgia’s plight seem direr.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
The pandemic pushed the world’s poor into direr straits, but for some young people it launched careers and improved chances for wealth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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
The suffering families were ever in the minds of the dauntless men who were away facing the enemy, for a direr foe was thinning the blood and blanching the cheeks of wife and child.
From School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore
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
Equally miraculous is a nonfiction movie forged in the direst of challenges that never comes across like an issue-driven medical narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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
Unsure of its power or abilities, we dared not use it for anything but the direst of circumstances.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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