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Precarious Prih Kayr Ee Us Adjective Tenuous Positioned Danger Falling Unsecured

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(prih-KAYR-ee-us), adjective

Tenuous; positioned so as to be in danger of falling; unsecured.

“Existence is no more than the PRECARIOUS attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.” – Susan Sontag, American literary theorist, philosopher, and political activist

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