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Recent Examples of dicey
The recoupment news comes at a time when big-budget Broadway musicals are finding an increasingly dicey financial environment.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
Left with a very dicey bunker shot from 40 yards, Rai had the option of playing it relatively safe and leaving himself 20 or so feet up the hill for birdie.
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Mark Harris,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
The main problem is trying to monetize people and replace them, which is turning out to be a dicey call for most companies.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
May still be dicey getting the full race in.
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Greg Cote
may 3,
Miami Herald,
3 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for dicey
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
Left with a very dicey bunker shot from 40 yards, Rai had the option of playing it relatively safe and leaving himself 20 or so feet up the hill for birdie.
—
Mark Harris,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
The main problem is trying to monetize people and replace them, which is turning out to be a dicey call for most companies.
—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
May still be dicey getting the full race in.
—
Greg Cote
may 3,
Miami Herald,
3 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for dicey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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Local computing can shorten response times and keep critical software running even when network links become unreliable.
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Existing safety tools were unreliable, so Adler decided to design a new one.
Adjective
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The local gendarmerie, led by blandly untrustworthy Inspector Marchal (Bertrand Belin) is called in to investigate.
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There is evidence that this tendency, known as the endowment effect, was favored by natural selection when bargains were risky in a pre-modern world, a time when giving over one item, in trade for another, might risk getting nothing at all from an untrustworthy trading partner.
Adjective
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And then there’s Kimberly’s home life, which features an emotionally and physically fragile mom preparing to give birth and an undependable alcoholic father.
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Yasmin, who was ousted from Pierpoint after a tabloid scandal involving her publishing-magnate father threatened to sully the bank by association, has turned to another undependable man for salvation, proposing to an aristocratic failson called Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington).
Adjective
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In the early 2000s, especially, Ashley favored haphazard updos, with layers falling from the sides, as seen at the spring 2005 Marc Jacobs show in New York.
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However, what ends up on screen is interminably dull, both in its visual construction and in its haphazard narrative swerves.
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Thankfully, there are self-aware jabs as well, and it’s all couched in a character- and ensemble-centric ending that has hearty portions that help the random sour bite go down smoothly.
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Their choice of 14er was not random.
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The highlight reel feature is pretty hit-or-miss.
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Though, storms will be hit-or-miss.
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“Dicey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dicey. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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