vexed question
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How to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is an especially vexed question.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
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
In his 1926 book, “The Game of Squash Rackets,” Charles Arnold, a prominent coach and player at the time, observed with typical British understatement that “the ball is a very vexed question in squash.”
From New York Times • May 4, 2022
Despite the great minds wrestling with it, the vexed question of how to live continues to induce a state of indissoluble anxiety.
From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2020
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
