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
Sandi's father looked down at his plate, grateful, but also embarrassed to be in such straits and to be so beholden.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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