precarious
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Jessica Reynaga, the organization’s chief program officer, said the economics of running child care are precarious industrywide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Pereira's worst affected neighborhoods were also its most impoverished, with homeless people, Venezuelan migrants and street vendors in precarious situations bearing the brunt of the impact.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Yet had Beijing followed through on the financial liberalization envisioned in the WTO agreement, the housing market might not have grown so distended or the balance sheets of local governments so precarious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Borrow a few inches from the precarious ledge beside the table.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
The alleged “safety” of malathion rests on rather precarious ground, although — as often happens — this was not discovered until the chemical had been in use for several years.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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