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Tortorella did make an iffy move in Game 2, asking referees to review a late overruled goal—officials rejected Las Vegas’s appeal, leading to a penalty, a Carolina power-play and a game-tying Canes goal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting men” begins with the iffy premise that extremely online discourse drives what people care about offline.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

For starters, chasing the rally from here looks iffy.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

The count is iffy because Glass pushes the boundaries between what we tend to call opera and the fuzzier idea of music theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

That was iffy logic, but Bobby Gene didn’t fight me on it.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

And remember that the door is typically the warmest place in the fridge, so it's fine for pickles and soda but iffier for shorter shelf life items like milk.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023

A welcome exception to the iffier interviewees is Tony Chicotel, a lawyer and expert on long-term-care rights and California law.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

The program’s supposed benefits look even iffier when weighed against its human costs, which are often easier to identify — children growing up without being able to visit fathers, for instance.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2017

Another slide by Coghlan was a lot iffier.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2015

In the present tense, might is used rather than may to describe an iffier situation.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

But the resulting expansion falls prey to that iffiest of modern-day horror movie conventions: an “opening up” narrative that too often feels like a shutting down of what’s truly scary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023