dire
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Yampolskiy worries that the next time this happens — which it will — the consequences could be more dire.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 23, 2026
Some have offered dire warnings about the potential long-term effect of AI on workforces.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 23, 2026
It is especially dire in the U.S. among the have-nots.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 17, 2026
With such dire prospects, the Rohingyas' only hope is to get out to another country.
From BBC β Jul. 17, 2026
With a deep breath I caught everyone up on my dire situation.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Rademacher said the showers will continue into at least Monday, with the midweek looking a bit direr.
From Seattle Times β Mar. 2, 2024
It’s just that recent-years playoffs might have made Georgia’s plight seem direr.
From Washington Post β 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 β Oct. 16, 2021
The speech was short, to the point, and shocking to many in the press who expected something direr.
From Salon β May 26, 2019
The plunge into the state-room at bedtime, and the crawl into the narrow berth, are not without their direr features, which the sea-smells and confined air aggravate.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
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 β May 16, 2024
This is an ancient and nearly universal idiom that resurfaces, in different forms, in different places, and at different times, in the direst of circumstances.
From Salon β May 4, 2024
Unison's head of local government Mike Short said town halls were in the "direst of states".
From BBC β 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 β Aug. 18, 2023
This shocked the three-judge panel, who warned us in direst terms about the dangers of conducting our own defense.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing dire
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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