controversial
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You can’t have that long a career and not rack up some controversial things.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Still, inoculation was so controversial at the time that Boylston was threatened with hanging, and a homemade bomb was thrown through a window of Mather’s house but failed to explode.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Last week, Altman was the subject of a investigative profile in The New Yorker magazine that called into question his trustworthiness and fitness to lead a company developing controversial AI technology.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
That is a shift that reverses decades of guidance but is seen as less controversial than raw milk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Most teachers avoided controversial subjects, but Mr. Brown’s classroom reverberated with them.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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