predicament
Example Sentences
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Punch's predicament sparked sympathy online, spawning a devoted Punch fanbase who began posting updates on the monkey under the hashtag #HangInTherePunch.
From Barron's
To understand Britain’s crisis of democracy, and how it both resembles and differs from our predicament in the Land of the Free, we need to back up a bit.
From Salon
But England had also contributed to their own predicament.
From BBC
There was "no low-cost or risk-free way out of Europe's nuclear predicament", they warned.
From Barron's
“Getting to Arizona may be difficult given our current predicament,” Dad says.
From Literature
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