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Indeed, after watching Bridgerton, I concluded in my review that “its most interesting ideas — like Simon’s precarious place in society as a duke of color or his mysterious time abroad — get almost no attention.”

But he has somehow leapt to a higher plateau during the last few years—all the more amazing given his precarious health.

Somebody else suggests that the evidence is precarious, coming as it does from victims who might not make confident witnesses.

It was a precarious life, tented on the fairgrounds with all earnings in cash.

The incident highlights the precarious state of Afghanistan as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw from the country.

Their harrowing escape to Erbil has ended in a precarious and hardscrabble existence.

When riding along a good road his position was precarious enough, requiring all his best efforts to maintain his balance.

To what sad, precarious, and miserable existence does he vow himself—he who takes up a literary career?

She had felt that no really nice girl would travel so far on so precarious an errand, particularly when she was alone.

Um could reach the highest shelf without standing on an inverted rice-pot, or the even more precarious fish-cleaning bench.

The life of the forest and desert hunters is one of incessant activity, and their food supply is precarious.