tricky
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What makes the automation campaign so tricky is keeping warehouses in service while they are re-engineered, said Rob Montgomery, head of supply-chain operations for Walmart U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
For all of Colleen Hoover’s success on the page, adapting her books to the screen has been tricky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
That’s a tricky decision to make, because the criteria for impactful album sequencing are not at all the same for a live show.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
But keeping pace with the international boom has proven tricky for the archipelago nation's overwhelmingly smallholder farmers, with yields declining and some unable to commit to the plant's nine-month growing time.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Having lunch with professional food tasters, of course, is a tricky proposition.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Lescure said a recent auction of 10-year bonds went smoothly, but demand for 30-year debt is “a bit trickier at the moment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
People do put stairlifts into basement stairwells, but the steeper and narrower space can make them trickier and possibly more expensive to install.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Where it gets trickier is when we look at the best guess of credibility, the term premium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Kittens are more likely to improve, but adults are trickier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Even trickier, she wanted to figure the best way to transfer funds.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
But this also left Anna Handler, who becomes the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s conductor-in-residence this fall, with the trickiest conducting assignment of the summer anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Perhaps the trickiest what-if scenario involves eldercare concerns.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Speaking in the episode, broadcast on Thursday, art historian Charles Greig described it as "one of the trickiest paintings I've ever had to consider".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The trickiest part may be settling on a share price -- the cost of one piece of ownership in the company when it first hits the market.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
Sobered by the force of the rising tempest, I realized that I’d gotten down the trickiest ground just in the nick of time.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
