pickles

noun

plural of pickle
as in predicaments
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape well, this is a bit of a pickle we've gotten ourselves into

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Recent Examples of pickles Instead, the culinary team reworked the dressing into a richer, creamier dill ranch designed to mellow the burger’s sharp briny flavors while still letting the pickles shine. — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026 Water-bath canning handles high-acid foods like tomatoes, fruit and pickles. — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 10 Aug. 2026 Combine ham, turkey, cheese, and pickles in a large bowl; add dressing and mix until well coated. — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2026 Our homemade harissa aioli brings the kick, the pickles and sumac onion cut the richness, and the roasted tomato and cabbage slaw keep everything bright. — Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Like fainting, craving pickles, or struggling to wiggle into skinny jeans, vomiting, in the cultural imagination, is a stand-in for imminent motherhood, as legible as any pregnancy test. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026 Pickle Souvenirs The pickles are great, of course, but the real reason to make a visit to the Pickle Parlor is to shop all of the fun pickle products on offer. — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2026 Pickle expert Karen Solomon, who wrote Pickles, Illustrated, suspects social media is one of the key reasons pickles are so popular right now. — Elliott Harrell, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 The platter comes with a table-full of colorful salads and dips, including pickles and olives imported from Israel. — Connie Ogle july 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickles
  1. predicaments
  2. dilemmas
  3. jams
  4. swamps
  5. holes
Noun
  • Aemond, too, for that matter, while Daemon’s arrogance continues to get Team Black into all sorts of predicaments.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Rather than bridging shortfalls, both Seattle and Washington now face more difficult fiscal predicaments, Joblon said.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
Definition of predicaments
Noun
  • The new strategies pose different dilemmas for college leaders.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • To have complex moral dilemmas for characters and situations within a narrative context.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of dilemmas
Noun
  • But this film’s logic lies in the edit, starting and ending with a stop-start stutter motif that jars us into this world of a small Oklahoma town, where a bluegrass band jams in a restaurant parking lot.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Satellite navigation can fail when an adversary jams GPS or China’s BeiDou system.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of jams
Noun
  • Flash flooding swamps Henry County Aubrey Wright Commissioner Steve Dellinger said Henry County is probably looking at record rainfall and flooding.
    — Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But bad ideas are like those Hollywood horror movies in which monsters always reemerge from the swamps to terrorize us again.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of swamps
Noun
  • Scheffler only hit one green in regulation through the opening five holes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The hex storage cube printed well, with the pre-tuned retraction settings working well on the myriad tiny interspaced holes.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of holes

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