precarious
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Given how precarious the slope was, the group decided Mingma G would hang back and monitor by drone, instructing the three climbers.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Earlier this year, one Iranian restaurant in Kuwait City dropped the words "Iranian cuisine" from its title -- a visible manifestation of the precarious line Iranians must now tread.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The only bright spot is a stock market bubble largely due to speculation in artificial intelligence, but that’s precarious and largely irrelevant to ordinary people.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
The outage hits Boston Scientific at a precarious moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing precarious
Grade 11, List 3
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A Doll's House
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John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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