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strait
noun as in crisis, difficulty
Example Sentences
About a year later, a second canine appears to have made the trip, potentially enticed by the first coyote’s calls echoing across the strait, she said.
Put it all together, and the U.S. economy is in dire straits, possibly heading toward a shoal.
After all, her next book is a roman à clef about Gala, and writing about a woman who might be in dire straits would be exploitative.
By the time President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the nation was in dire straits.
Their stories are the epitome of what Sweden and Denmark's governments envisioned when they signed an agreement in 1991 to build a permanent link across the Oresund strait.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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