Synonyms for straits
straits

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1. pass, strait, straitsnoun

   a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

   Synonyms:
   go, passing, notch, liberty chit, strait, fling, walk, passing play, crack, laissez passer, mountain pass, pass, bye, passing game, flip, passport, base on balls, toss, sound, whirl, qualifying, head, offer

2. pass, head, straitsnoun

   a difficult juncture

   "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"

   Synonyms:
   heading, promontory, psyche, school principal, nous, mind, headland, head teacher, head, strait, fountainhead, whirl, principal, drumhead, point, top dog, passport, header, brain, offer, passing play, laissez passer, question, mountain pass, toss, headspring, headway, crack, foreland, go, passing game, chief, pass, read/write head, liberty chit, qualifying, head word, forefront, walk, base on balls, fling, flip, capitulum, notch, oral sex, caput, bye, passing

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1. • Juncture
   • Situation

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1. List of paraphrases for "straits":

   strait, bungo, detroit, close, hoi, gorges

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1. Emily Benfer:

   Families are panicked, they don't know where their children are going to sleep come Monday night. They don't know how they'll cover the past-due rent that they're not likely to pay off in their lifetime. Many of them have applied for rental assistance, but with only $ 3 billion of the $ 46 billion paid out, they're on hold. And so they're panicked, they're desperate, they're in dire straits.

2. Collin Koh:

   We will see the Indian Ocean grow in importance, too, particularly around traditional chokeholds, such as the approaches to the Malacca Straits and the Nicobar islands, so an improved U.S. relationship with the major submarine player in the area, India, is very significant.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   Puerto Rico is now in very, very difficult straits. People are leaving the island, unemployment is high, schools are being closed, bottom line is you cannot get blood from a stone. You can't push more austerity on a people who are already hurting. The goal is to rebuild the economy.

4. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu:

   If the U.S. ships don’t pass the straits today, the 15-day notice period starts all over again. Non-coastal states need to convey notices 15 days in advance.

5. President Biden:

   People on both sides of Taiwan Straits are Chinese, so we are compatriots. So the last thing we should do is to fight with compatriots. And we will do our utmost in the greatest sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification, but ... that Taiwanese authority is working down the road towards independence, emboldened by the United States. So China will not commit to giving up the un-peaceful means for reunification because this is a deterrence.