straits
Example Sentences
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Investors had been fleeing BuzzFeed’s stock as the once-popular media outlet found itself in deeper financial straits.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
The airlines emphasized Spirit’s dire financial straits, but the judge found that that distress didn’t meet a rigorous “failing firm” threshold that would’ve triggered friendlier antitrust treatment.
From Slate • May 5, 2026
Staging a Shakespeare tragedy with just four actors sounds like a potentially comic stunt or an unfortunate advertisement of dire economic straits, in either case a radical diminishment of the play.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Double-digit raises have been promised to union workers by a school system that for months has proclaimed that it is in dire financial straits, trapped in deficit spending and facing potential insolvency in four years.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
“As directly as islands, straits, and reefs let us, can’t we?”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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