problematic
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“Cathy never gave up on beauty, even though beauty is a very difficult and problematic concept,” Molesworth said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
That is what makes support for the Callais decision so problematic.
From Slate • May 22, 2026
Even oil is less problematic for local companies that don’t ship goods overseas.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
But the investor ban is too problematic to salvage.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
So these little nuggets of problematic facticity—the inability of garlic to disempower a magnet or of goat’s blood to re-empower it—found their way into della Porta’s text.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing problematic
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