Julianna Baggott

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Novelist

Sarah Lancashire

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

British Actress

Richard N. Haass

The political world is defined by relationships rather than transactions, and by numerous actors at home and abroad with independent power. Navigating such a world is difficult and precarious.

American Diplomat

Glennon Doyle Melton

The fact that we define ourselves by our roles can be an admirable thing - it's how we build a life and make a living. But it's also precarious. Roles change. Sometimes overnight.

American Author

Jerry Hall

The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

American Model

Robert Krulwich

Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.

American Journalist

Sidney Sheldon

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

American Novelist

Jane Addams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

American Activist

Todd Haynes

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

American Director

Simon Newcomb

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Canadian Mathematician

Describes objects that might literally fall or collapse.

Physically Unstable

Often used for situations that can quickly become dangerous or problematic.

Risky Situations

Can describe situations that are unstable but not physically, like a relationship.

Metaphorical Use

Describes futures or outcomes that depend on variables that may change.

Uncertain Futures

Often relates to employment or means of earning that are not guaranteed.

Economic Insecurity

Used when results cannot be forecasted or controlled, often involving chance.

Unpredictable Outcome

 you show yourself you can run a mile or two, or a marathon, or lose five pounds, or whatever it is, you realize that confidence compounds and can be transferred into the rest of your world. And I've actually gotten into the habit of this a little bit with my friends. We have this little group. We go on physical adventures, and recently, I found myself in a kind of precarious spot.

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 He said they'd have humans doing it. And what that really means is, instead of having toddlers being the first person to see this stuff, you're going to have underpaid, precarious contract workers without proper mental health support being damaged by it as well. And I think we can all do quite a lot better than that.

The nightmare videos of...

 got you it had to be you know one of them that would arrive is that in female that's darling it looks like a that's arriving now but and I represent sure through all those branches is it might be you can see she's just below us at the moment so we kind of parked in a very precarious spot in many respects

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 This little chap was the first one born. He was the one that, for the first couple of hours, we were a little worried about. He had a bit of a tougher time. Didn't you? You're doing well. He's nearly the same weight as his brother now. Despite their good health, life for young tigers is precarious.

Handraising Twin Tiger...

 couple of hours we were a little worried about he had a bit of a tougher time didn't you you're doing well he's nearly the same weight as his brother now despite their good health life for young tigers is precarious globally over a third of captive-born sumatran cubs won't make it to adulthood

Adorable Tiger Cub...

 forgotten as long as the Cubs call their mother is compelled to keep retrieving them but this would try any mother's patience the young Cubs life is very precarious had the mother been away hunting at a moment like this the outcome could have been very different

Mother Tiger Learns to...

 Along the way, it asks important questions about ambition, power, and violence that spoke directly to the politics of Shakespeare's time and continue to echo in our own. England in the early 17th century was politically precarious.

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 forgotten as long as the Cubs call their mother is compelled to keep retrieving them but this would try any mother's patience the young Cubs life is very precarious had the mother been away

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 they've caught it and mated and the eggs are laid one per bear the mothers won't root it though the father will and one of the most precarious parts of the whole process is the handover

Penguins Huddle To Keep...

 The young Cubs life is very precarious. Had the mother been away hunting at a moment like this, the outcome could have been very different.

Precarious

Not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse.

Often appears as...

Dependent on chance; uncertain.

Often appears as...

Physically Unstable

Risky Situations

Metaphorical Use

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