How to Use precarity in a Sentence

precarity

noun
  • People who are in the creative world feel this precarity all the time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But the grandness of these dreams butts up against the precarity that their dreamers are facing.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In other words, more people are living in some kind of precarity.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Her critiques didn’t seem to be about its precarity, but its narrowness.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • These days, the chatter is more about the precarity of life in the United States.
    — Lavender Au, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Amid that climate of precarity, Fontaine’s work as a real estate agent has dried up.
    — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 24 Nov. 2024
  • But an injury could also prompt wonder at the miracle and the precarity of sinew and bone.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • That precarity is partly due to the gap between inflation and wages.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 28 May 2026
  • The latter, of course, feels unattainable in a time of worker precarity and a resurgent grind culture.
    — Anna North, Vox, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This is the precarity-to-tradwife pipeline.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But tending to two people reveals the fine line between freedom and precarity.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • The long-term trend has been that new technologies tend to exacerbate precarity.
    — David Karpf, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Their precarity is, in and of itself, a reflection of vast inequities that shape the global system.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
  • As the first in his family to be born inside a house and not on the street, Aaron was astutely aware of the precarity of life.
    — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • But these institutions have long teetered, along with their clientele, on a knife’s edge of financial precarity.
    — Victor Luckerson, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • One person's resilience is another's precarity, but so far broad pain has been avoided (or deferred).
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Obviously there is that sense of precarity with workers.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The terrifying precarity of the present has been fertile creative ground.
    — Nia Coats, Pitchfork, 18 May 2026
  • Clearly, the business is facing some level of precarity on a systemic level.
    — Nia Bowers, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Storms also pushed the parishes to recognize their precarity.
    — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2023

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