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Recent Examples of dicey
Consulting firms face an even dicier future, as the Bain and Mintz raids underscore.
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Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
But the more far-reaching goals of some demonstrators put the movement in dicier territory.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
Tagging a right tackle is a dicier proposition given the tender basically grants left tackle money.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
This is where things get even dicier, especially since the content focused on science topics like vaccines and climate change that are subject to a lot of misinformation campaigns online.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 June 2023
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Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
But the more far-reaching goals of some demonstrators put the movement in dicier territory.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
Tagging a right tackle is a dicier proposition given the tender basically grants left tackle money.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
This is where things get even dicier, especially since the content focused on science topics like vaccines and climate change that are subject to a lot of misinformation campaigns online.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 June 2023
See all Example Sentences for dicey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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The surge is supplementing an unreliable grid beset by aging infrastructure and a fuel shortage.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
15 Feb. 2025
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Read: The real cost of knowledge The mess that this creates, in the form of unreliable research, can to some extent be cleaned up after publication.—
Adam Marcus,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The core advice from everyone is the same: don’t click on unsolicited links from strangers or untrustworthy sources.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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In one of his final acts before leaving office, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Andrew Bain put Osceola Sheriff Marcos Lopez on an official list of law enforcement officers deemed untrustworthy.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Food, water and other resources would have to be shipped from home, at distances that make the supply frighteningly undependable.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct. 2024
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With fueling so expensive and stations so undependable, Kiskis — who lives in Pacific Palisades and works at Google in Playa Vista — drives a gasoline Jeep for everything but short trips around the neighborhood.—
Russ Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Narrative has always felt very natural to me, probably because I was raised in a household of storytellers, and because formal linearity affords me a sense of aesthetic control over my very haphazard, exilic life.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
16 Jan. 2025
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But most of those efforts were haphazard, devolved into infighting among Chicanosauruses and didn’t develop into a full-fledged movement.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Experts say the four recent accidents should not be viewed as a systemic, nationwide problem, but rather as four random events that happened to cluster together in time.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
11 Feb. 2025
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Each random aside and unexpected focal point helps develop the characters, fleshing out Marshall, Frances, Copano, and Harrington beyond their function in the narrative.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But even with all that pomp and circumstance, Super Bowl halftime has often been a hit-or-miss event.—
Bloomberg News,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2025
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Christmas music seems to be hit-or-miss with most people, and opinions on specific songs can vary greatly.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American-Statesman,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Dicey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dicey. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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