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inconvenient

[in-kuhn-veen-yuhnt] / ˌɪn kənˈvin yənt /


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At the weekends, she would gather with the few national-standard players in her state and do some contact work at a mutually inconvenient central location.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

His vanishing cultural presence also exposed another inconvenient fact—that he was hardly as godly as the memes made him out to be.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

At some point, a great nation must follow the evidence—even when the evidence leads somewhere politically inconvenient.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

To age is to find one’s appreciation for life’s daily joys sharpen, especially as more inconvenient realities assert themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Some doctors tend to feel they’re invulnerable, while other people, doctors included, refuse to set their work aside because to do so is inconvenient.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French