vexing
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That’s what’s made this series so vexing for the shorthanded Lakers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
As Salon has reported before, these things can appear extremely bright in the night sky, vexing astronomers and essentially censoring the stars.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
This allows fiduciaries to address the vexing problem of “de-cumulation”—spending safely without running out of savings—in defined-contribution plans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
For investors, this raises a vexing valuation issue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Particularly vexing to Meggers was that some of the same people who demanded minutely detailed proof for pre-Clovis sites had cheerfully accepted Roosevelt’s revisionism about Marajo.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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