insecurity

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Nuclear development is a long-term project, not a short-term fix to current energy insecurity.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Demographers are skeptical that subsidies can move the needle much against forces like high education costs, job insecurity, delayed marriage, and shifting gender norms.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Instead, it led to a world of job insecurity and wages too low to support most people, let alone a family.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Regular police have all but disappeared from the streets of Tehran, adding to a sense of general insecurity, residents said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modem life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

From "1984" by George Orwell