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predicament

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


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Manchester City were bought by Abu Dhabi investors in 2008 but, the document says, their predicament had become clear from the start of the 2009-10 season.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Such is the predicament of running Germany’s premier industrial company, where half the supervisory-board directors are worker representatives and swing votes are held by the local government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

I asked Wes Karger, co-founder and managing partner at TwinFocus, about your predicament.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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 reached over and picked the bigger pieces of debris out of them as I mulled over our predicament.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

When you’re barely making ends meet, you can only wish to be any degree well-off and, therefore, be open to watching why that life comes with its predicaments, mainly having to do with ego.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025

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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