treacherous
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A father driving his daughter and two other families from the Santa Clarita Flyers hockey club to a tournament in Colorado was killed last week in a horrific crash in treacherous weather.
From Los Angeles Times
First, the bad news: “Snowcrete” is the treacherous ice that results when rain, imprecise or nonexistent plowing and insufficient salting turn what was once fluffy white snow into a dense and dirty scourge.
Grisham remains a standard-bearer for a certain type of American reader, one who takes comfort in stories where half-decent small-town lawyers overcome treacherous situations and good triumphs over corruption in the courtroom.
The main character grapples with the untimely death of his mother as he navigates a new, possibly treacherous, relationship.
From Los Angeles Times
In a few, rare cases, officials settled on major modifications to the highway, including a tunnel that in 2013 replaced a treacherous stretch of the road known as Devil’s Slide south of Pacifica.
From Los Angeles Times
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