predicament
Example Sentences
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What Woods needs right now is this: friends with the courage to treat him as a regular human in a real predicament.
Eric Taylor, the city manager of Social Circle, Ga., said his town faces a similar predicament.
“Exactly what advice Ebel and Diestel dispensed to parishioners in a wide range of personal predicaments,” writes Mr. Clark, “we will never know.”
In both films, Byrne plays a down-on-her-luck mother trying to make the best of an impossible predicament, rallying against systemic failure while fighting to keep her head above water.
From Salon
He’s merely one of 347 biologists that Eva assigned to solve the case, so he’s confounded to be in this lonely predicament.
From Los Angeles Times
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