touchy
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Dealings with Saudi Arabia have been a touchy subject in Hollywood since the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Apparently veterans are very touchy about changing that and Trump seems to have dropped it.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
The creation — and Carter’s expansion — of Redwood National Park has long been a touchy subject along California’s rural, economically depressed North Coast, where the once-thriving logging industry cratered over the last half-century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
In most touchy situations where she’s called the play, the numbers moved because people trusted her instincts.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2024
“Uncle Al was touchy about not having a vet, and then out of blue, here you are, from an Ivy League school no less.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
After all, this conversation isn’t totally unlike one you might have with a potential roommate, even if familial obligations make it a bit touchier.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2025
There is also the touchier question of how to address the legacy of both composers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
Mussolini eventually bowed out after saying that, although she wasn’t sure if American anti-fascists were more annoying than Italian ones, they were definitely touchier:
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2019
But a touchier issue erupted when Whittaker, on Aug. 9, thinking a summit assault was nearing, named the four climbers he had chosen to try for the top: Wickwire, Reichardt, Ridgeway and Roskelley.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
Of course, no one said anything, their boss being touchier than a septic boil.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
And food is one of the touchiest characteristics for sure.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
“But it’s also a more vulnerable performance, less tightly woven and deliberately plotted, even turning uncharacteristically jagged at points as it explores some of the writer’s touchiest preoccupations.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
He willingly wades into the NBA MVP debate, the touchiest of all NBA topics.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
Another reason the study can’t definitively show its touchiest suggestion—that mammograms were overdiagnosing cancers—is no one knows what is happening to these early stage cancers.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2012
He was about the touchiest guy I ever met.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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