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However, it also means having to address thorny issues with the media, which currently include a perceived lack of signings.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

And then having a new build where it is, down the road from their current ground, deals with the potentially thorny problem about where United would play if Old Trafford was closed for a period.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

But the question of who gets paid or has permission to develop this new reading superpower is a thorny one.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Cali Adeline’s debut novel ‘People Watching in the Desert’ uses the tropes of a breezy summer getaway to explore the thorny, Didion-esque ethics of the stories we tell about others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

You found a plastic bucket to sit on under the shade of a thorny acacia tree, about as far from the rubbish range as you could go while staying within sight.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

The U.S. is unlikely to reduce these much unless it gains ground on thornier issues, especially with Canada on lumber or dairy, says Owen Tedford, an analyst at Beacon Policy Advisors.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

The U.S. and Iran struck a preliminary peace deal last week that broadly calls for a 60-day cease-fire and punted some of the conflict’s thornier issues, such as Iran’s uranium stockpiles.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

But if much of “Wasteman” follows an expected trajectory, the film’s conception of Taylor proves thornier than anticipated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

And a culture of callouts, scandals, and fear may prevent media and publishing from wrestling with much thornier questions of authorship.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

At present he is plain human, with the world-old malady gnawing at his heart, a pain which threatens to send his cogitations whooping down a thornier and rosier lane than any Buddha ever knew.

From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little

Unions say the measure would give them needed leverage and remove political pressure from the thorniest contract questions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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 territorial question is one of the thorniest.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

The thorniest issues were bundled into a "mutirao" pact -- the summit's slogan, drawn from the Tupi-Guarani word for "collective effort."

From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland