vexed question
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A similar query arises when the author comes to the vexed question of how, and if, a diarist’s confidential work should be preserved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Given what happened, that would be a vexed question.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
Those recommendations would cover "identifying and expanding sources of funding" - referring to the vexed question of which countries should pay into the new fund.
From Reuters ● Nov. 19, 2022
More simply, it’s a knowing joke about the role of the model, and the vexed question of her collaboration with her artist-lover.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Bad luck to the gardener's shears which had abbreviated that experiment and enveloped the vexed question again in darkness.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
