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Recent Examples of dicey
But the Avalanche have worked their way back from a similarly dicey situation before in a playoff series.
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ABC News,
23 May 2026
The recoupment news comes at a time when big-budget Broadway musicals are finding an increasingly dicey financial environment.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
Left with a very dicey bunker shot from 40 yards, Rai had the option of playing it relatively safe and leaving himself 20 or so feet up the hill for birdie.
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Mark Harris,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
The main problem is trying to monetize people and replace them, which is turning out to be a dicey call for most companies.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for dicey
ABC News,
23 May 2026
The recoupment news comes at a time when big-budget Broadway musicals are finding an increasingly dicey financial environment.
—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
Left with a very dicey bunker shot from 40 yards, Rai had the option of playing it relatively safe and leaving himself 20 or so feet up the hill for birdie.
—
Mark Harris,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
The main problem is trying to monetize people and replace them, which is turning out to be a dicey call for most companies.
—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for dicey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dicey
Adjective
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Employees quickly abandon systems that are slow, unreliable or difficult to use.
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But weak charging infrastructure, limited and unreliable electricity supply outside major cities, and high financing costs could constrain widespread adoption on the continent, even as investors race to build out infrastructure.
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The local gendarmerie, led by blandly untrustworthy Inspector Marchal (Bertrand Belin) is called in to investigate.
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There is evidence that this tendency, known as the endowment effect, was favored by natural selection when bargains were risky in a pre-modern world, a time when giving over one item, in trade for another, might risk getting nothing at all from an untrustworthy trading partner.
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And then there’s Kimberly’s home life, which features an emotionally and physically fragile mom preparing to give birth and an undependable alcoholic father.
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Yasmin, who was ousted from Pierpoint after a tabloid scandal involving her publishing-magnate father threatened to sully the bank by association, has turned to another undependable man for salvation, proposing to an aristocratic failson called Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington).
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Promising young filmmakers, having cobbled together haphazard budgets for an Easy Rider or Bonnie and Clyde couldn’t find coherent support for new ideas.
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In the early 2000s, especially, Ashley favored haphazard updos, with layers falling from the sides, as seen at the spring 2005 Marc Jacobs show in New York.
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Luka Dončić got traded at midnight on a random Saturday in February.
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Pinned to their random assortment of hats were scrawled, handmade signs proclaiming liberty or death.
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This early in the forecast, yes, but they’ll be scattered and hit-or-miss.
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The highlight reel feature is pretty hit-or-miss.
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“Dicey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dicey. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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