precarious
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In Europe, flash estimates of purchasing managers’ surveys for May and U.K. inflation data are due, while investors will watch any further developments in U.K. politics as the prime minister’s position remains precarious.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Oil prices were on track for another weekly gain as the global energy situation becomes more and more precarious.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
For years, the Rose Bowl has walked the precarious line between tradition and technology, striving to keep up with modern-day venues while maintaining the nostalgic touches that make it a national landmark.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
White working-class and precarious middle-class voters were alarmed not only at the upending of the racial caste system but also at what they saw as an unraveling of society in general.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
Message; movement; information; form; Darwin; Mendel; Morgan: all was writ into that precarious assemblage of molecules.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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