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Recent Examples of dicey
Blake Lively is sharing one of her diciest past beauty practices!
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Escher Walcott, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
As for removing the fist completely, Dr. Powell says that that can get dicier than the initial insertion.
—Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com, 28 June 2024
Kimbrel struck Raleigh out on the next pitch, but the ninth got even dicier when Kimbrel plunked Jorge Polanco to bring the potential winning run to the plate with one out.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
Consulting firms face an even dicier future, as the Bain and Mintz raids underscore.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
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Escher Walcott, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
As for removing the fist completely, Dr. Powell says that that can get dicier than the initial insertion.
—Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com, 28 June 2024
Kimbrel struck Raleigh out on the next pitch, but the ninth got even dicier when Kimbrel plunked Jorge Polanco to bring the potential winning run to the plate with one out.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
Consulting firms face an even dicier future, as the Bain and Mintz raids underscore.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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There are several advanced monitoring components: • Outlier Detection: Flags anomalous predictions that may be unreliable for production use, particularly important given the noisy nature of real-world data.—
Neel Sendas,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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To be sure, these predictions are notoriously unreliable, but the fact remains that Wall Street, which cheered Trump’s election, is losing faith.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In recent years Ye has taken to sharing controversial political and social beliefs online, often spouting antisemitic screeds on X that valorize the swastika symbol and accusing Jews of being untrustworthy, among other things.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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Coal industry executives disown him for being an untrustworthy counterparty.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But while the stock market is often a fickle friend, as are commodities such as oil and natural gas, wheat and corn, part of what was so shocking in 2022 was the simultaneous slump in government and corporate bonds, which proved as undependable as stocks.—
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CNBC,
18 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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The mass arrests and roundups thus far have been so haphazard that there is a very real likelihood that innocent individuals have also been swept up and deported.—
Nisha Whitehead,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2025
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But swirling around it are immigration restrictions, headlong and haphazard reductions in Federal spending and a separate but related confidence shock weighing on consumer behavior.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Cooper Josephine: This started in [Montreal’s] Lafontaine Park when I was scouted by a random person with a clipboard.—
James Factora,
Them.,
31 Mar. 2025
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And because new keys can be made only through random mutation, the odds of obtaining all the right ones are very slim.—
Ron Barrett,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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When things are going wrong in a management relationship, the common denominator is usually unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss communication.—
Bruce Tulgan,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Both are free agents along with a hit-or-miss group that includes Aaron Rodgers, Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones.—
Jeff Howe,
The Athletic,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Dicey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dicey. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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