predicament
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But the secondhand programs won’t solve the industry’s sustainability predicament if it doesn’t stop intentionally overproducing clothes with the goal of putting leftover stock on sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
In the course of a whirlwind four weeks, every wing of the parliamentary Labour Party has anointed him as the only person able to reverse their electoral predicament.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Perhaps one man writing it leads to other men identifying with the individual’s predicament and following up with a letter of their own.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“I didn’t know Pinky had so many fans!” laughs Valdez while describing the predicament he was in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
During that summer, as the temperature climbed, Milton tried to come to grips with the predicament he found himself in.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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