predicament

Manchester City were bought by Abu Dhabi investors in 2008 but, the document says, their predicament had become clear from the start of the 2009-10 season.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Such is the predicament of running Germany’s premier industrial company, where half the supervisory-board directors are worker representatives and swing votes are held by the local government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

You’re never too old, and you’re not the only reader with this predicament.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Andrea, a 32-year-old mother who declined to give her surname because she felt ashamed of her predicament, tried to reinvent herself by starting a catering business after the stationary shop where she worked shut down.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Which I’d argue is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the human predicament, but okay.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

On the screen, in a series of daredevil adventures, the actor had extricated himself from a hundred impossible predicaments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Just as Murrin was trying to get the Supreme Court’s attention, the top Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Senate Finance Committee unveiled a bill to fix predicaments like the one Murrin faced.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

There's plenty of evidence from his own track record that he won't give up - but history is less on his side when it comes to governments in predicaments like this.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

Some faced worse storage predicaments than I did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

At least the heat had less bite and the humidity had dropped to tolerable levels, so I was able to hang out on the sidewalk and think about all my predicaments.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas