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dilemma
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  • But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.  (source)
    dilemma = problem (without a good solution)
  • The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.  (source)
  • When I was born, my own parents were faced with a dilemma: how could they teach me to speak?  (source)
    dilemma = difficult problem
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  • The omnivore's dilemma has been around a long time.  (source)
    dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • Abandonment, guilt, betrayal: the boy in front of me would consider them banal dilemmas.†  (source)
    dilemmas = situations in which difficult choices must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • Mary was not the least bit concerned about her son's new dilemma.†  (source)
    dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • Mrs. Shultz is a sturdy lady who probably secretly appreciates the value of a swift kick well placed, and although she told me that it would be better if I let other people work out their own dilemmas, she definitely understood about Shelly Stalls and her hair and told me she was glad I'd had the self-control to do nothing more than restrain her.†  (source)
    dilemmas = situations in which difficult choices must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • If only he could make peace with Dana Matherson, even temporarily, then he'd be free to focus his energy on solving the Mullet Fingers dilemma.†  (source)
    dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • The fact that tonight was a maybe date created more dilemmas for Dan.†  (source)
    dilemmas = situations in which difficult choices must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • A little private moral dilemma.†  (source)
    dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • He is wracking his mind with vast cosmological dilemmas.†  (source)
    dilemmas = situations in which difficult choices must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • But just as I cross the lawn toward her, she looks over my shoulder and smiles even more brightly to see a lone figure approaching on a steed—a lone figure in the uniform of the Hussars.... "You see the dilemma the fox had put me in, Charles.†  (source)
    dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
  • The answers may have to do with psychological dilemmas, with spiritual crises, with historical or social or political concerns.†  (source)
    dilemmas = situations in which difficult choices must be made between imperfect alternatives
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