precarious
Example Sentences
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Just how long they’ll have to hang is still unclear, particularly because the cease-fire is already in a precarious spot.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
And I don’t think that they would be as susceptible to the crime that happened if they weren’t in particularly precarious times in their life.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Many of these workers take low paid or precarious jobs, and have little access to things like healthcare, the ILO says.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
The situation is so precarious that Prime Minister Koo Yun Cheol has suggested that, for the first time in 35 years, driving restrictions may be imposed on the public to restrict energy consumption.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Our attorneys warned me that it would put me in a more precarious legal situation; anything I said in my statement regarding my own innocence would be discounted by the judge.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing precarious
Grade 11, List 3
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A Doll's House
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John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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