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Recent Examples of parlous As announced last week, mere hours after Ratcliffe was lamenting the club’s parlous finances, United are now planning to build a new, 100,000-capacity stadium, in a project expected to cost £2bn. Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025 Its economic position is parlous, its demographic situation is miserable and its military capacities have atrophied, and most of the chest-thumping about a revival of European power is empty talk and fantasy politics. Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025 Donald Trump has returned to the White House at a particularly parlous moment for American interests. Seth Cropsey, National Review, 14 Feb. 2025 Such parlous conditions have turned Syrian campuses into hotbeds of corruption and scientific fraud. Byrichard Stone, science.org, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for parlous
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Adjective
  • The most dangerous enemy of a successful business is complacency.
    Robert Balentine, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Reading back over her sister’s occasionally gossipy letters, maybe Cassie thought those qualities were just too dangerous to reveal publicly.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Allowed to crumble into disrepair by its owners, the Meruelo family, the famous hotel was ordered demolished by the city as a hazardous structure.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Although with the right tools, tough jobs can be a lot easier, faster, and even less hazardous in the case of sharp tools.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The original film tells the story of a perilous trip undertaken by Hikari 109, a high-speed, first-generation bullet train traveling from Tokyo to Hakata.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Albi opened in early 2020, a perilous time for any new business to kick off.
    Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Most cryptocurrency education is either overly basic or intended to encourage new investors to make risky trades without a clear plan.
    Kody Boye, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This shift has become more apparent over the last two years, as some venture capital investors have moved their focus from riskier early-stage startups to later-stage companies that are more established, according to insiders.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But legal experts said a criminal contempt finding would be a serious step to be avoided.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • The restaurant sector must get in the game in order to make a serious dent on improving customer health.
    Hank Cardello, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Now a few months into his second term as president, peace talks between the two countries are looking precarious.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Finding a job is always a challenge, especially in the current precarious economic climate.
    Iris Dorbian, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Parlous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlous. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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