dilemma

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quandary | American Dictionary

quandary
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ˈkwɑn·dri/
a state of not being able to decide what to do about a situation in which you are involved:
I’ve had two job offers, and I’m in a real quandary about/over which one to accept.

Examples of quandary

quandary
These results will not affect studies of large parties, but do create a quandary for research where there are small voting blocs.
Averroes' way out of the quandary was to posit a "divine force", owing to which the heat is generated by reflected light.
Here we find ourselves in an analytical quandary.
The first thing a professional linguist will say, at this point, is that this quandary has been well-known since at least the 1950s.
However, the anthropologist is still left with an ethnographic quandary: not all displacements and mass movements are diasporic.
As trainees strive to become "team players" their interactions with colleagues are frequent sources of ethical conflicts and quandaries.
Moral quandaries were also framed in terms of their social ramifications.
The introduction and application of new technologies in clinical practice is sometimes associated with explicit moral quandaries.
As the work of the convention proceeded, the delegates were still in a quandary about a suitable method for electing a president.
This leaves behavioural physiologists in something of a quandary.
In short all this leads to a quandary.
One approach to resolving this quandary is to be found in wider acceptance of the doctrine of medical futility.
Although end-of-life decisionmaking and other areas of quandary ethics are important topics, values - including ethical values - inform every aspect of day-to-day medical practice.
It is for this reason that war, or other forms of political violence, may occur at the onset of a quandary.
It is reasonable to call such a situation a quandary.
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