tricky
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“I think the bar is high for many companies, and with cautious to negative market sentiment, it could be a tricky week,” Rahbari said over email.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
Or will the tricky and experienced southpaw Puello, who has lost just once in 26 professional fights, ruin the homecoming?
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
That doesn’t make it any less emotionally icky or tricky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Also, individuals must handle potentially tricky tasks like ripping out old heating units and setting up weather stripping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Which was tricky to do, but we were both trying.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
It’s trickier than I hoped it would be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
But answering local queries and frustrations is getting trickier as resistance picks up, with government officials and residents expressing worries about everything from electricity prices to water waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
The recent sudden spikes in fuel prices are making it trickier.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
He is more cunning, subtler, trickier than any god or giant.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
One of the trickiest parts about having an estranged child is dealing with estate planning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
She says shorts are "the trickiest item to get right in a professional environment" and recommends tailored, longer shorts paired with a crisp shirt or lightweight blazer for both men and women.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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
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