predicament
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The methods they produced—careful, adversarial, institutionally embedded, historically tested—are, for that very reason, more directly relevant to our current predicament than any amount of algorithmic benchmarking.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Punch's predicament sparked huge interest online, spawning a devoted fanbase under the hashtag #HangInTherePunch.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
How would Tatiana Maslany, left, and Jake Johnson have handled the predicament Paula finds herself in?
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
To understand how the U.S. arrived in this predicament, let’s take a step back.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
The officer stared back at them blankly as they explained their predicament, and then he cut them off.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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