problematic

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In an interview last week, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said an interest-rate boost could be necessary in the future if inflation remains problematic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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

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

“So if César was exposed as being the problematic individual we now know him to be, then maybe the union and the movement was also problematic and so people stayed quiet.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The awkward silence of the civil rights community, however, is more problematic.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander