To be sure, even the critics say the dire outcomes that they forecast can be avoided.

When they clash, with dire outcome, the harm is that much worse.

"You-you are able to visualize this dire outcome through your sorcery?"

The fear is usually not of the object itself but of some dire outcome, such as falling from an airplane.

A sober reckoning of the odds might well lead to defeatism and paralysis, making the dire outcome even more probable.

This new proposal resulted in a dire outcome.

Each passing minute made the likely outcome more and more dire.

The antivirus companies say such a dire outcome is not likely.

At least one other media watchdog foresees an even more dire outcome.

The budget problems you mention are very real throughout California, but the dire outcomes described have not occurred on University of California campuses.