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unsafe or in danger of getting worse — especially in danger of falling
- Me: I feel kinda precarious in general, and I can't really date you.p. 162.2
- The rest of the art was cool, too—big abstract paintings of hard-edged geometric shapes, an assemblage of old wooden chairs precariously stacked to the ceiling, a huge photograph of a kid jumping on a trampoline alone in a vast harvested cornfield—but Mychal's was my favorite, and not just because I knew him.p. 261.6
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