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Recent Examples of dicey
But the environment for IPOs and M&A remains dicey, according to PitchBook’s Stanford.
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
Things may be getting dicey for the stock market.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Losing both would be dicey, because there’s not going to be another chance for a big win.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
These are dicey times for the energy transition.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
Things may be getting dicey for the stock market.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Losing both would be dicey, because there’s not going to be another chance for a big win.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
These are dicey times for the energy transition.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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Additionally, infrastructure already weakened by previous flooding may be increasingly unreliable.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The overwhelming majority of experts dispute that torture actually works as an interrogation technique, arguing that any information that comes out of it is unreliable as people under duress will say anything needed to convince their torturers to stop.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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In an audio recording that The Charlotte Observer and other news outlets published soon after, McFadden berated his staff and called them untrustworthy.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
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If no one told you to watch for something, treat it as untrustworthy until confirmed.—
Ken Colburn,
AZCentral.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But while the stock market is often a fickle friend, as are commodities such as oil and natural gas, wheat and corn, part of what was so shocking in 2022 was the simultaneous slump in government and corporate bonds, which proved as undependable as stocks.—
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CNBC,
18 Feb. 2025
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Food, water and other resources would have to be shipped from home, at distances that make the supply frighteningly undependable.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Tidmarsh’s ouster is the latest in a string of haphazard leadership changes at the agency, which has been rocked for months by firings, departures and controversial decisions on vaccines, fluoride and other products.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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If the segues in Scene don’t feel haphazard and herky-jerky, this is in no small part because of the role addiction plays as connective tissue between sections, a kind of leitmotif.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Rumors have swirled that Jaramillo was at the center of an ambush or that his murder was part of planned retribution, but Cordero-Stutz reaffirmed that his death was a random encounter that could have happened to any deputy that day.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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This is the random bunch of misfits Courteney will have to transform into a team competitive enough to make it to nationals, and that will surely start to form one big family along the way.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Brown has been extremely hit-or-miss this season.—
Harold Gutmann,
Mercury News,
6 Nov. 2025
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Although its interface works well, the actual recommendations are hit-or-miss.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Dicey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dicey. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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