dubious

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In rare diseases and advanced cancer, such demands can be impractical, ethically dubious and less informative than carefully analyzed real-world evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

My mother was dubious when I told her I wanted to write about Chinatown.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

"Some of these tools are not ethically dubious at all. They're trained by people that are using their own work," she added.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

A lot of it has involved anonymous tips and other dubious sources claiming to have secret intel.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

But upon close inspection, the information invariably traced back to the same dubious sources: private eyes and local lawmen, whose opinions were based on little more than hearsay.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann