predicament
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"He recognises he is entirely to blame for his predicament," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Moores are in the same maddening predicament as hundreds of Palisades and Eaton fire survivors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
This was understandable, she thought, given their predicament.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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
There's plenty of evidence from his own track record that he won't give up - but history is less on his side when it comes to governments in predicaments like this.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Some faced worse storage predicaments than I did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Such postseason predicaments haven’t always broke Roberts’ way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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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