knotty
Example Sentences
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Questions around pediatric use, Ms. Donnellan recognizes, are knotty: How do we balance the “significant health damage” caused by excess weight in childhood with the risks of committing children to long-term drug therapy?
A knotty and mind-bending question is whether such flow would matter.
From Science Magazine
Wolf said hearing Porter helped her wrestle with the knotty decision about whom to back in the primary.
From Los Angeles Times
Aside from raising questions of legality, such technology can introduce knotty ethical concerns regarding race and identity.
From New York Times
Later the Picasso inheritance grew knottier, with feminist historians and scholars of African and Oceanic art revealing the oversights and injuries of his omnivorous visual appetite.
From New York Times
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