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predicaments

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Country-wide, the lack of utilities, even in urban areas, leads to absurdist predicaments.

But as evidenced by two other fathers' restraint in the face of similar predicaments, it doesn't have to be this way.

To hear about their predicaments is to see exactly how much, and how little, was won in court this week.

Not the same policies, mind you, because they are inadequate for our predicaments but the same spirit.

She had often helped Johnny out of his predicaments, receiving in return plenty of kisses and sugar-plums.

There are predicaments when the shrewd brute and cunning brigand has his superior at a disadvantage.

He includes among such entities all Aristotle's 'predicaments' except the first: 'substance.'

But he had been in bad predicaments before, and, hopeless as it now 43seemed, something might turn up to save them yet.

Mary was sitting up straight on the boulder now, her face dimpling as she recalled these various predicaments.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to predicaments, such as: circumstance, crisis, deadlock, dilemma, hardship, and imbroglio.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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