embarrassing problem

Example Sentences

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Back then, the State Department had an embarrassing problem.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020

Target’s Twitter account was hacked and used for a bitcoin scam Twitter has an embarrassing problem where people take over verified accounts and then use them to run Bitcoin scams.

From The Verge • Nov. 14, 2018

“This is an intraparty problem, and it is a seriously embarrassing problem for them,” said Bob Coffin, a former Democratic City Council member from Las Vegas.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2014

MOX is a nuclear fuel invented by governments to address the embarrassing problem of what to do with separated plutonium.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2013

The suitable disposal of the members of his household was an embarrassing problem for him.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles