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Recent Examples of dicey
Last year’s championships show just how dicey that event can be.
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Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Jones also irritated House leaders by ignoring a plan to continue using Georgia's voting machines for one more year until replacements can be arranged, creating the possibility of a dicey election-season special session.
—CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
How veteran trade targets could impact draft thinking If the Cowboys don’t come away with a starting-quality middle linebacker in the draft, then things are going to get a bit dicey.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2026
But the timeline remains dicey, after a lack of commitment from Tehran reportedly resulted in a pause in Vice President JD Vance's trip to join peace talks.
—Sean Conlon,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
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Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Jones also irritated House leaders by ignoring a plan to continue using Georgia's voting machines for one more year until replacements can be arranged, creating the possibility of a dicey election-season special session.
—CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
How veteran trade targets could impact draft thinking If the Cowboys don’t come away with a starting-quality middle linebacker in the draft, then things are going to get a bit dicey.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2026
But the timeline remains dicey, after a lack of commitment from Tehran reportedly resulted in a pause in Vice President JD Vance's trip to join peace talks.
—Sean Conlon,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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The court of where-there's-smoke-there's-fire is historically unreliable.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
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He’s surrounded by unreliable narrators.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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In classical Athens the playwright Aristophanes attacked purveyors of knowledge for being intellectually untrustworthy, essentially deceitful.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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On the other hand, some types of sources such as public relations are rated as untrustworthy in general.—
Florian Wintterlin,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
25 Feb. 2026
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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).—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Rosenior abandoned his haphazard experiment at half-time, bringing on forward Alejandro Garnacho for centre-back Wesley Fofana and reverting to a back four.—
Conor O'Neill,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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Through orchestra, chamber music, and even haphazard improv with friends, music has acted as a bridge to understanding others and continuing to explore and learn with them.—
Heide Janssen,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Even if the threshold for disagreement was quite low, disagreements were amplified to the point that each random interaction was increasingly likely to exceed the threshold.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2026
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But as some have learned the hard way, that tendency of random things to appear to form patterns means that the other peak might be just noise.—
Faye Flam,
Scientific American,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Their draft selections have been hit-or-miss.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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Forecasters say most storms will be hit-or-miss, but a few could briefly turn strong enough to produce hail, especially during the afternoon and evening.—
Brandi D. Addison,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Dicey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dicey. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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