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dilemma

/daɪˈlɛmə/

An illustration for dilemma

noun

a position in which a person must make difficult choices

  • “Never in his life had he encountered such a dilemma.”Tatoeba
  • “People are usually the architects of their own dilemmas.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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