How to Use precarity in a Sentence

precarity

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bloomberg reports that the new debt is giving investors a 13% interest rate, a reflection of the precarity of Hertz’s fortunes.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 20 June 2024
• 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
• Julio Torres returns with another comedy that finds ethereal humor in the precarity of an artist’s life.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 28 June 2024
• Beneath the novel’s profound weirdness is a sly skewering of the precarity of modern employment, where any kind of permanence can seem like a pipe dream and contentment is often just as elusive.
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024