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dilemmas

CEFR: C1

Complex situations in which a difficult choice has to be made between competing alternatives (plural).

Synonyms

quandaries
predicaments

Common Collocations

ethical dilemmas
moral dilemmas
face dilemmas

Example Sentence

Bioethicists regularly confront agonizing moral dilemmas surrounding algorithmic life-support decisions.

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