sticky wicket

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Recent Examples of sticky wicket That third spot is a sticky wicket for a team projected to be just outside the top five in the game. Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK published 18 September 2024 A cricketing powerhouse for decades, Pakistan's national team have suddenly found themselves on a sticky wicket. Harriet Marsden, theweek, 18 Sep. 2024 Much of its lexicon sounds both unapproachable and, well, just weird: sticky wicket, googly, yorker, jaffa, daisy cutter, silly mid off, maiden over, tickle, nurdle, trundler, paddle scoop, popping crease, golden duck. Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sticky wicket
Noun
  • See maps People donating to California wildfire victims face a dilemma: Leave a tip too?
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Consider this dilemma: someone has an old home in a high-price area and is considering adding a bathroom to the home.
    Cicely Jones, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Willard didn’t envy Illinois coach Brad Underwood’s predicament against Maryland’s big men.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Though bucks are known to get their antlers tangled up during fights on rare occasions, this predicament was particularly challenging — and called for very steady aim, according to wildlife officials.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Leftover charcuterie is a bit of a challenge, with items as diverse as fig jam or Jamón Ibérico and a vast spread of about six categories (carbs, meat, cheese, spreads, pickles, and nuts).
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The restaurant serves chili on burgers — which come in single, double and triple patty options, each with tomatoes, pickles, onions and mustard.
    Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The pieces vary in size and shape; a few have small holes cut in them.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Some holes can’t be filled, and no writer, no matter how skilled, can return their subject to anything truly resembling life.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Bolsonaro believes Trump’s victory will put the present government in a bind.
    Armando Regil Velasco Fox News, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The city put itself in a bind by increasing rank-and-file police officer wages without providing comparable increases to supervisory ranks, Vallelong said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Noun
  • Jim Paladino, Tampa Start with the swamp The Sun Sentinel recently published a letter by Deb Tarrant of Hillsboro Beach that could have been written by Trump himself.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The locations team was worried, however, that the swamp was too slippery for actors, crew and animals, its bed made up of mud and roots.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Sticky wicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sticky%20wicket. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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