as in predicament
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
well, this is a bit of a pickle we've gotten ourselves into
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Recent Examples of pickle
After the baby pickle drop for the kids, a giant pickle will descend into Dillsburg.
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Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
Unique facilities include rooftop pickle and paddleball courts, and Singapore’s first longevity clinic, Chi.
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See video … LARA TRUMP – Scrambling Democratic Party in a bit of a pickle over its next star.
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Your Blood Pressure Will Rise Eating pickles regularly may increase your blood pressure.
—Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 19 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickle
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This year, however, my predicament has grown more urgent.—
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Owner’s Jail, to put it nicely, is the predicament of NFL fans whose team is owned by someone whose stewardship does not inspire great optimism.—
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Readers send Miss Manners not only their table and party questions, but those involving the more complicated aspects of life - romance, work, family relationships, child-rearing, death - as well as philosophical and moral dilemmas.—
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Rodríguez’s dilemma is compounded by the collapse of traditional military command.—
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His absence left yet another hole in the quartet featuring him, Ball, Knueppel and Bridges.—
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Plunging directly in the frigid lake via holes carved in the ice.—
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The lack of balance put the Panthers in a bind on early downs, as Young had to carry the offense instead of guiding it in the rain.—
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Those conditions have put the Fed in a bind, since the central bank must balance a dual mandate to keep inflation under control and maximize employment.—
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More is at stake than preserving the singular beauty of the sawgrass prairies of Everglades National Park or cypress swamps of the Big Cypress National Preserve.—
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Trump and his supporters have worn his legal attacks as a badge of honor, taking them as proof that an insidious swamp has conspired against him.—
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These traditional Jewish desserts are made with a simple shortbread dough and filled with your favorite fruit jam.—
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Markle's orange marmalade, strawberry jam and raspberry jam are included in the set.—
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“Pickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickle. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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