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Recent Examples of dicey
Placing blame is dicey when both sides must own their share.
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
That got dicey when at the end of a 12-yard reception in the second quarter, Ravens top wide receiver Zay Flowers injured his right knee.
—Zac Jackson, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
They’re most easily seen from the Northern Hemisphere, but visibility can be dicey because of the cloudy weather conditions that often occur in early January.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
The Chiefs are up 29-10 after the extra point, and things are looking dicey for the Steelers.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2024
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
That got dicey when at the end of a 12-yard reception in the second quarter, Ravens top wide receiver Zay Flowers injured his right knee.
—Zac Jackson, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
They’re most easily seen from the Northern Hemisphere, but visibility can be dicey because of the cloudy weather conditions that often occur in early January.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
The Chiefs are up 29-10 after the extra point, and things are looking dicey for the Steelers.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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Both have been neglected for years: Bridges are crumbling, school buildings disintegrating, and trains — once a symbol of German efficiency — are now so unreliable that some lines are banned from neighboring Switzerland’s railways.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
4 June 2025
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He’s also become notoriously unreliable as a live act, particularly in the Twin Cities.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The humor of the books is darker and drier, partly because it comes filtered entirely through the perspective of a cyborg that views humanity as inherently untrustworthy and violence as a frustrating but useful chore.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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This makes the administration seem like a particularly untrustworthy locus for a registry to track autistic people.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 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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Additionally, as this week’s stock market slump revealed, haphazard threats do not happen in a vacuum.—
Aroop Mukharji,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Mar. 2025
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In lieu of federal regulation, there was a haphazard patchwork of state and local laws surrounding certain foods pre-1906.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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But all that information exists in random, unorganized disorder.—
Jerry Weissman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The bill also calls for the State Department of Education to conduct random surprise visits at private special education institutions.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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Other installments are more hit-or-miss, particularly in their use of cringe comedy.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2025
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Their comedy can be hit-or-miss, and outdated at times, but the humor that does land is quite good.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
22 May 2025
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“Dicey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dicey. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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