as in dilemma
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
if you had told the truth in the first place, we wouldn't be in this predicament
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The trouble is director Brad Anderson and screenwriter Dan Hall fail to properly mine the protagonist’s distressing predicament for its maximum potential, particularly after he’s hunted by a crew of criminals, relegating him and his deaf companion to an insular location.
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Courtney Howard, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
Other businesses face the same predicament, with goods that could be stranded at sea if 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association make good on their threat to strike.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
The predicament has led many Armenian-Americans to sympathize with the Palestinian/Arab American uncommitted movement, though the two haven’t officially cooperated.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024
That’s the predicament facing Elliott (Maisy Stella) who, while tripping on ‘shrooms on a camping trip with friends to celebrate her birthday, gets visited by her cynical older self (Aubrey Plaza, in a role well-suited for her).
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
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Courtney Howard, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
Other businesses face the same predicament, with goods that could be stranded at sea if 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association make good on their threat to strike.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
The predicament has led many Armenian-Americans to sympathize with the Palestinian/Arab American uncommitted movement, though the two haven’t officially cooperated.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024
That’s the predicament facing Elliott (Maisy Stella) who, while tripping on ‘shrooms on a camping trip with friends to celebrate her birthday, gets visited by her cynical older self (Aubrey Plaza, in a role well-suited for her).
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
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