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1
a situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices
- faced with a dilemma of whether to risk continuing to drive in the dangerous storm or to give up searching for the lost dog and hope he survived
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2
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
- with home prices in a free fall, sellers were in a terrible dilemma
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The first known use of dilemma was in 1523
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