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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Recent Examples of predicament
Amy’s predicament on Doc is a unique one—reliving certain moments and experiencing them as if for the first time.
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Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Still, the series takes it up a notch when Augusto’s rebellious younger daughter, Alice, fails to return home after a fight with her father, and Daniel realizes this particular predicament might be beyond even his capabilities.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Is River in desperate need of some R&R, or is everyone else projecting their own predicaments onto him?
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
Even with that predicament, the Mets didn’t add any starting pitching at the July 31 trade deadline.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Still, the series takes it up a notch when Augusto’s rebellious younger daughter, Alice, fails to return home after a fight with her father, and Daniel realizes this particular predicament might be beyond even his capabilities.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Is River in desperate need of some R&R, or is everyone else projecting their own predicaments onto him?
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
Even with that predicament, the Mets didn’t add any starting pitching at the July 31 trade deadline.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predicament
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In the interstices of all that, at a bar one sweaty night, Wyeth meets Keating, a seminarian on a hiatus of sorts whose spiritual dilemma becomes imbricated in his own.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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But the committee faced a dilemma.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Fries, chicken, cut tomatoes and pickles were stored without covers.—
Sarah Linn,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The vegan sub includes vegan lunch meats and cheese and all the fixins, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles, as the nonvegan version.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Predicament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predicament. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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