knotty question
Example Sentences
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The knotty question is what to do next.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 15, 2022
“Truth” in memoir is a knotty question to begin with, but at evangelical publishing houses, there’s an extra layer of complexity.
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2019
Specifics are under wraps, but the episode seems centred around a big, knotty question: if someone’s essence can be transplanted into a mechanised clone, where do we end and robots begin?
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2019
The Boston attack, on April 15, raises a knotty question not just about that incident but also about other high-profile ones in April: Was it symbolically tied to the month — or just happenstance?
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2016
It is human to err, says the poet moralist; and so the jurymen in question discovered, and would therefore rather refer a knotty question to another deity than Justice, whom men call Fortune.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
