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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
half nelson
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom

predicament | American Dictionary

predicament
noun[ C ]
us/prɪˈdɪk·ə·mənt/
an unpleasant or confusing situation that is difficult to get out of or solve:
With no money and no job, he found himself in a real predicament.

Examples of predicament

predicament
Such depositions are thus seen as ' psychic documents which recount particular predicaments ' (p. 201).
Here, on the other hand, in wanting to begin to become truth by becoming subjective, subjectivity is in the predicament of being untruth.
He elaborates on the predicament in which states had no nations to correspond to them.
Communication predicaments of aging : patronizing behavior toward older adults.
To be caught by surprise is a predicament in which delight and discomfort may mingle coequally.
In meting out judgments, we are often faced with the predicament that those who design evil are not necessarily those who give effect to it.
The community of natural scientists finds the human predicament, and its population component, very alarming.
It represents an attempt to respond to and address universal problems intrinsic to the human predicament.
Rather, diaspora is both predicament and opportunity, forcing its differently identified 'members' continually to address their differences, whatever their common goals.
We get another indication of the predicament through criticism levelled privately against them by family members and friends.
Rather, they set out to provide a facet of political behaviour by relating it to private predicament.
The colonial predicament unleashed changes that led to a rethinking of identities within the indigenous social hierarchy.
This predicament was made clear by the second principle, the necessity to air repressed grievances in a public arena.
One observation that all the commentators shared was my 'evident sympathy for the villagers' predicament'.
Is there a way out of this predicament?
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Collocations withpredicament

predicament

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current predicament
A casual examination seems to give little room for cheer, especially considering the unprecented scale and numerous irreversibilities in our currentpredicament.
economic predicament
Those who boarded the northbound buses therefore did so because they could see no other solution to their desperate economicpredicament.
financial predicament
However, the financial predicament of 50% of them did impinge directly upon their early development.
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