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Meanings of quandary in English
Portuguese
dificuldade Catalan
tràngol A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one.
Synonyms
Examples for "plight"
Examples for "plight"
1
China have hardly been sympathetic to the Europeans' plight in recent weeks.
2
However, to many observers the plight of gay Republicans seems extremely difficult.
3
The company's plight highlights the challenges facing small Canadian health-care sector companies.
4
What had happened, he said, should raise awareness of the migrants' plight.
5
Now no one in particular is to blame for this social plight.
1
Others said Boudou's predicament reflected splits and power struggles within Fernandez's administration.
2
Massino now had enough information to know that his predicament was serious.
3
At the heart of private equity's predicament is a problem of plenty.
4
Nonetheless, as Japan's experience shows, the predicament may last a long time.
5
But given BP's predicament, that's the least of its worries right now.
Usage of quandary in English
1
I said, Then perhaps you can recommend a solution to this quandary.
2
Denis O'Sullivan may have an answer to a quandary facing Irish agriculture.
3
There was no farmhouse in sight, and Harding was in a quandary.
4
And that puts the research community in a bit of a quandary.
5
Then the dog's in a quandary: How does it go for help?
6
It was also a quandary for the team behind the new drama.
7
It seems to me that this is the quandary of public education.
8
Absolom's mind raced, searching for some answer to the quandary he faced.
9
He was in a quandary and knew not which way to move.
10
So there was never a moral quandary for me in those terms.
11
She was in a quandary as to how to begin with Kate.
12
But for all that he found himself in a sad quandary now.
13
Our Government was in a slight quandary over this appeal from Haiti.
14
But Desmond, as he took the papers, felt himself in a quandary.
15
As for President Dole and his cabinet, they were in a quandary.
16
They were relieved that the current quandary might be settled by someone.
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Quandary through the time
Quandary across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common