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The poet hopes to humanize bureaucratic spaces like the airport, a thorny subject for many disgruntled travelers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The thorny issue of the pedestrianisation of London's most famous shopping street had foxed mayoral administrations for years.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Moneyist tackles a thorny question after a woman’s longtime partner died and left her his house — much to the chagrin of his grown children from a past marriage.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Brandtech landed on the idea that White & Case is good at solving thorny, cross-border, cross-sector issues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Nearby stood a squat, gnarled tree with thorny leaves and black bark.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

“That would leave the thornier issues around tech rivalry, transshipments and Taiwan unresolved.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

But American business owners and policymakers are grappling with a thornier question: Are high energy costs a temporary nuisance to wait out, or a long-term economic reality that calls for price increases right now?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Then it was back to even thornier negotiations in Russia–Ukraine, and Iran.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

If an agreement as superficial as the memorandum of understanding — which deferred thornier issues for late negotiations — was derailed, then there’s little option other than repeated cycles of violence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The entrance, from the ground to the height of twelve feet, was walled up with a mass of thorny branches, interwoven with yet thornier creepers.

From Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennett

Whether those talks — which were meant to deal with the thorniest issues between the two countries, including the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear program — will go ahead remains unclear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The chapter on fisheries, expected to be the thorniest as Iceland is intent on retaining control over its resources, had not been opened.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

Check outthe Moneyist private Facebook group, where we look for answers to life’s thorniest money issues.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 14, 2026

Moreover, one of the thorniest challenges with the agency’s data collection was in a category that makes up a huge portion of the price index: housing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

The Reagan had run afoul of nuclear power’s thorniest problem: radioactive isotopes.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland