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Vocabulary
Usage of dilemma
What's the correct usage of the word 'dilemma'? Please provide examples also.
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A dilemma is a problem that requires studying and choosing among alternatives. Here are some examples: The neighbor's cats frequently jump up on our car, leaving paw prints and scratches everywhere. Do you know of a humane way to keep them off the vehicle?
- A dilemma is a problem that requires studying and choosing among alternatives.
- Here are some examples: The neighbor's cats frequently jump up on our car, leaving paw prints and scratches everywhere.
- Do you know of a humane way to keep them off the vehicle?
- Over the years, I have heard of at least 20 different ways to solve this dilemma .
- Bogged down in the fight over health care, Obama faced a dilemma : prodding senators to get moving on climate change might derail health care even further, but waiting too long risked missing the deadline for Copenhagen.
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A dilemma is a problem that requires studying and choosing among alternatives.
Here are some examples:
The neighbor's cats frequently jump up on our car, leaving paw prints and scratches everywhere. Do you know of a humane way to keep them off the vehicle? Over the years, I have heard of at least 20 different ways to solve this dilemma.
Bogged down in the fight
Here are some examples:
The neighbor's cats frequently jump up on our car, leaving paw prints and scratches everywhere. Do you know of a humane way to keep them off the vehicle? Over the years, I have heard of at least 20 different ways to solve this dilemma.
Bogged down in the fight
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Dilemma means either facing a choice between two undesirable things, or any complex or difficult problem.
Sue faced a dilemma when she received invitations to two events on the same night.
Our company was in a dilemma about whether or not to take our stock public, or try to privately raise the necessary capital to save the business.
The problem with American education i
Sue faced a dilemma when she received invitations to two events on the same night.
Our company was in a dilemma about whether or not to take our stock public, or try to privately raise the necessary capital to save the business.
The problem with American education i
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(a) a dilemma involves a choice; (b) the necessary elements of a choice present themselves as alternatives; (c) neither of the alternative is sufficient on its own; (d) one needs both the alternatives together, but one cannot have both. Such a situation presents the chooser with a dilemma.
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