as in instability
the quality or state of not being firmly fixed in position
she quickly moved the china teapot after noticing its precariousness on the shelf
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Recent Examples of precariousness
Responding to the precariousness of our moment, museums have reified the problem with an unfortunate watchword: relevance.
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Eric Crosby, Artforum, 1 May 2025
But instead of recognizing the precariousness of his position, Netanyahu abandoned his characteristic caution, put his faith in Trump without a fallback, and is now left with nowhere else to turn.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
Recurrent themes running through the selection are motherhood, love and precariousness, and often precariousness linked to motherhood, such as in Adam’s Interest and the other Belgian film Kika.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Because this clever, funny play is both an attentive ode to Greenspan’s extraordinary artistry as a playwright-performer and an unsparing meditation on the psychic and financial precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Eric Crosby, Artforum, 1 May 2025
But instead of recognizing the precariousness of his position, Netanyahu abandoned his characteristic caution, put his faith in Trump without a fallback, and is now left with nowhere else to turn.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
Recurrent themes running through the selection are motherhood, love and precariousness, and often precariousness linked to motherhood, such as in Adam’s Interest and the other Belgian film Kika.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Because this clever, funny play is both an attentive ode to Greenspan’s extraordinary artistry as a playwright-performer and an unsparing meditation on the psychic and financial precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precariousness
instability
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In a time when inflation, student loan debt, and job instability make the future feel uncertain, both women stress that estate planning is more—not less—urgent.—
Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Failing to respond could risk plunging the rest of the country into violence and instability.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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