dire situation
Frequency: 7.29.3 per million words
Refers to a very serious and difficult situation or condition.
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- The refugees are facing a dire situation with no food or shelter.
- The company found itself in a dire situation after losing its biggest client.
- Without immediate medical intervention, the patient's condition will become a dire situation.
- Climate change has created a dire situation for many island nations.
- The report highlighted the dire situation of the country's public education system.
- He was in a financially dire situation and had to sell his house.
- We must act now to prevent this from escalating into a dire situation.
- How did we let things get to such a dire situation?
- The nation was in a dire situation during the great famine.
- The team came together to resolve the dire situation and save the project.