problematic

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But the director, who wrote his adaptation in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo, also isn’t content with mere novelistic faithfulness to an author whose traces of colonial allegory in “The Stranger” have often been found problematic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

“If it’s longer term, I think it’s more problematic for sure,” Link said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Now, Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica have obtained documents that reveal the role Dundon played in pushing some of the key company practices that regulators later presented as problematic.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Dangerously, it takes car smashes for the problematic side of the former world number one's life to be revealed.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Only ten years after the passage and ratification of the Constitution, however, what were treasonable or seditious acts remained blurry and more problematic judgments without the historical sanction that only experience could provide.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis