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unsafe or in danger of getting worse — especially in danger of falling
- This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel.p. 199.5
- NORAH STOOD, BAREFOOT AND PRECARIOUSLY BALANCED, on a stool in the dining room, fastening pink streamers to the brass chandelier.p. 73.0
There are no more uses of "precarious" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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