predicament
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Jimmy Mulville, the co-founder of Hat Trick Productions, which makes the satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You, told the same newspaper he could understand the corporation's predicament.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
"I don't know how people don't recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
You’re never too old, and you’re not the only reader with this predicament.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
There’s no moral gotcha — no resentment toward the character or the predicament they find themselves in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The people surrounding us shouted, stomped, and whistled as though her awful predicament were a triumph for them.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Just as Murrin was trying to get the Supreme Court’s attention, the top Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Senate Finance Committee unveiled a bill to fix predicaments like the one Murrin faced.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Some faced worse storage predicaments than I did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Myanmar has also been hit by a devastating earthquake in March and international funding cuts, that have left vulnerable people in desperate and dangerous predicaments.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
Setting a murder mystery on an exclusive cruise isn't enough to make its predicaments distinctive.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2024
Completely unarmed, the Florentines engaged ten thousand French soldiers to take Pisa: such a plan endangered them more than any of their previous predicaments.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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