tricky situation

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He’d also made a tricky situation downright fraught when he told reporters: “I presumed to come into this team competition with only 50% of my full potential.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

This is a tricky situation because you signed a pension contract that affects how you may claim Social Security, and that type of contract is not universal.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 31, 2026

We've spoken to a woman with first-hand experience of that dilemma and two relationship experts about what to do in this tricky situation.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

But it continues to be a tricky situation for the Iranian government.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2025

A tricky situation needs to be resolved through a complex series of steps — and somehow the pilots fail to coordinate and miss one of them.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell