predicament

Example Sentences

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So why is the sport in this predicament, and what can it do to improve?

From BBC

Last year’s inescapable “Wicked” and its new follow-up finale, “Wicked: For Good,” present an entirely different, far more frustrating predicament than the one Warner Bros. faced in the late aughts.

From Salon

When it was called I thought of Albert Brooks in “Broadcast News,” who asked, of a different predicament, “Does anybody ever win one of these things?”

From The Wall Street Journal

He also frequently bewails the exchange of his “real life” as a travel writer for his shadow-self as a spy, a predicament which he finds “fraught, annoying, perplexing, duplicitous.”

From The Wall Street Journal

That dynamic means that for some months now it has been typical in conversations with Labour figures in Westminster for them to muse upon whether a change of leader would improve their political predicament.

From BBC