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precarious [prıˈkeərıəs] ADJ

1. precarious:

precarious
precarious

2. precarious:

precarious
precarious
▶ precariously ADV
▶ precariousness N

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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He states that it is a precarious, delicate, subtle but founding isthmus.
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The club's precarious financial situation was obvious and during the winter break most of the first team players left the club.
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By 1910 there were still over 70 boys but the number of boarders had dropped to 26 and the position of the school was precarious.
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However, enemy reinforcements made the platoons position precarious.
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The city was quite isolated during those years: the communication system was precarious.
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Her precarious health and complex mental condition make the actual cause of death a question to this day.
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Almost all of her works explore the precarious economic situation in which women of the late 18th and early 19th centuries found themselves.
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Specifically, it is applied to the condition of intermittent or underemployment and the resultant precarious existence.
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The moves were aimed at relieving the unemployment created by the country's precarious economic situation.
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Concerned at the precarious nature of his profession, and the number of projects that were never built, he also taught architecture.
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