precarious
Example Sentences
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Fraser’s explosive performance underlines the immensity of the stakes, balancing every precarious element of this enormous mission.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
It leaves the Frenchman in a precarious position and unable to stay at the club that he said he truly wanted to stay at.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
The woman said the price of essentials has surged, with sudden and unpredictable increases making daily life increasingly precarious.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Airlines are once again in a precarious position.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
On four chairs arranged before an oak desk rested still more books—which Rhonda and the pencil woman removed so the children could sit—and on the desk itself, piled in precarious, leaning towers, were even more.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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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