problematic
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Urban planner Clement Gaillard said AC was not problematic as long as it was not used as the only solution.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
The problematic 20% are mostly in Iraq and Kuwait, some of which would probably never return to pre-conflict production levels, said the IEA.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
You’ll regularly hear them trying to separate a love of their country and its people from support of problematic regimes.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
Ethically, the political context makes such videos "deeply problematic", she says, and on a psychological level, she believes it is unclear whether AI visualisations help people deal with grief or deepen it instead.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
There are cases of ‘problematic facticity’ and others of ‘unproblematic facticity’, and the language of the fact seems to be employed first of all to deal with cases of problematic facticity.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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