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problematic

[prob-luh-mat-ik] / ˌprɒb ləˈmæt ɪk /


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At the Court of Appeal in Belfast, Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan said a ruling by a judge in 2025 preventing the upgrade of the A5 was "problematic" and could not stand.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes are unwitting film fest stars as documentaries about problematic tech titans have dominated news coming out of prestigious film festivals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Polymarket partners with IC360, an integrity monitoring group that tracks problematic trading behavior and offers self-exclusion tools that allow users to voluntarily restrict or withdraw their accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Three major MAX buyers told AFP they don't fly planes with the problematic new version of the flight management computer software.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

It is not surprising that the history of science is a problematic activity, because science itself constantly claims to escape from its own temporal specificity, its own artificiality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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