All 4 Uses

dilemma
in
Through My Eyes
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It was a fun action part with a great costume, but I had such a dilemma when I realized that the required dress rehearsal was the same time as the semifinals for the city baseball championship.†
p. 47.5

dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
No one could help me decide—my family understood my dilemma.†
p. 86.7 *
Between my dilemma of staying or going and Coach Mullen's leaving Florida for Mississippi State, our celebration after the National Championship was short lived.†
p. 210.1
Meanwhile, I have the opposite dilemma.†
p. 215.8

Definitions:

(1) (dilemma)
a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)