precarious
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Google search interest in “housing bubble” reached a peak in 2006, coincident with the highest precrisis level for the Case-Shiller home-price index.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
Now, though, those yields have stabilized at precrisis levels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
It took roughly eight years for unemployment to fall back to its precrisis level.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023
By comparison, the decline in gross domestic product in November only amounted to $80 billion below precrisis levels, according to Furman.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021
Europe will remain a laggard, given the prevalence of the virus, according to IHS Markit, with the continent’s economy not returning to its precrisis size for two years.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2020
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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