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- 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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- with home prices in a free fall, sellers were in a terrible dilemma
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“Dilemma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilemma. Accessed 27 May. 2022.
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The first known use of dilemma was in 1523
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