straits
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Bye - who has a six-year-old dalmatian, two springer spaniels and a cat - said her family were "financially stable" when they got their pets but a year later were in "dire straits".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
There is no indication that either insurer is in such dire straits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Japan isn’t in the same economic straits as Argentina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Even if disrupted flows through both straits fall another 4 million barrels a day from current levels, the market can sidestep an acute shortage as long as “demand stays close to today’s depressed levels.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
All the sunshine meant there were vegetables earlier than there should have been, and given the dire straits we were supposedly in, there seemed to be lots of food.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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