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predicament

[pri-dik-uh-muhnt, pred-i-kuh-muhnt] / prɪˈdɪk ə mənt, ˈprɛd ɪ kə mənt /


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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

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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