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Recent Examples of dicey
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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Weldon has also shared unreliable claims about reproductive health.—
Chantelle Lee,
TIME,
12 Mar. 2025
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In a press briefing, the NTSB shared the investigation's initial findings on potential unreliable data recording and an Air Traffic Control communications issue that led to the crash.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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However, should untrustworthy individuals gain access to your Gemini app, the potential for misuse remains high.—
Paul Monckton,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Russia will come up with new, complex, and far-reaching demands, with strategic stability issues, regarding U.S. military installations in eastern Europe and will turn out to be an expensive and untrustworthy partner.—
Wolfgang Ischinger,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Mar. 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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Marta González de la Rubia, an archivist at Loewe who gave me a tour of the facility, told me that in the company’s early decades the retention of samples had been haphazard, and that this was especially true with the company’s packaging.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The vibrations felt more haphazard, with less granular effects, but loud shots were still met with strong motor bumps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Choosing a random cabin location Choose your cabin location with careful consideration and a strategic approach.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Cherry rues the random nature of these instances of trauma, which explode only to be forgotten five minutes later, subsumed beneath the next crisis.—
Sam Worley,
Vulture,
18 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 23 Mar. 2025.
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