How to Use precarity in a Sentence

precarity

noun
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  • The record-breaking bounty enjoyed by the few has been matched only by the spike in precarity for the many.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The salaries, though small, kept a few of the actors on the sunny side of financial precarity.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Romance has long been a socially accepted way to cope with the precarity of life and the prospect of death.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Without the comfort of their everyday routine, the swimmers fear the rest of the world and its precarity.
    — Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Timmy and his employees work for a brand that is out of time, in every sense, and the sitcom reflects that precarity.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, more people are living in some kind of precarity.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Their precarity is, in and of itself, a reflection of vast inequities that shape the global system.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The precarity of romance is on Musgraves’ mind because … well, really, the idea is never not on her mind.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In New York, the hustle was all the more effective because of how familiar her precarity seemed.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Even in my numb state, in this baby stage of bereavement, the truth about the precarity of our lives rippled through me with a deep, gentle electricity.
    — Sam Lipsyte, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • Her critiques didn’t seem to be about its precarity, but its narrowness.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Not only by leaving them houseless, but by then exploiting their precarity to work them straight into the ground.
    — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Doug, his only son, grew up driving a tractor and feeding livestock. Doug knows the feeling of precarity that comes with a life in agriculture.
    — Dan Gearino, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Following his story was a form of escapism for me, a brief departure from my own precarity.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The desirability of access to Bluesky has increased in proportion to the precarity of the service.
    — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • The long-term trend has been that new technologies tend to exacerbate precarity.
    — David Karpf, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Hustling to evade precarity during a time of layoffs, many still don’t have enough income to have extra spending power.
    — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • But these institutions have long teetered, along with their clientele, on a knife’s edge of financial precarity.
    — Victor Luckerson, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
  • This means that women whose financial precarity led them to surrogacy are now struggling with one more mouth to feed.
    — Hannah Beech Nadia Shira Cohen, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
  • In the end, the precarity created by this new regime seems to have had a disastrous effect on efforts to diversify writers’ rooms.
    — Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Reem and Sunny are terrified by the precarity of their position.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Indeed, precarity is in some ways more intense among the downwardly mobile middle class than among the genuinely poor.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Notable among them is the tension between the beauty and pathos found, and revealed through, the precarity and ephemerality of existence that comes about through the inevitability of change.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • To solve the problem, Washington first needs to understand the frightening precarity of the modern global supply chain.
    — Alex T. Williams, Star Tribune, 17 May 2021
  • The precarity recalled an earlier moment in bioscience: the advent of gene splicing, which allows DNA from disparate species to be combined.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Trump may have lit a fire under some artists, but the exhaustion, trauma and precarity that permeated his tenure worked hard to extinguish it.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Storms also pushed the parishes to recognize their precarity.
    — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Struggling with student debt – or worse, defaulting and seeing your entire financial life take a huge hit – is part of what keeps so many Americans living in a state of precarity.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • What was once called the petite bourgeoisie, then, was key to his support—not people feeling the brunt of economic precarity but people feeling the possibility of it.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Other people are stuck in places with extreme precarity, hunger, and persecution.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2024

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