dubious
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Being a Cane’s newbie, I felt dubious about this pitch.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
The dubious nature of Duffy’s show hasn’t gone unnoticed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
They value their assets infrequently, in the shadows, rather than in the daily sunlight of public markets—and even insiders concede those valuations can be dubious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Running a pharmaceutical company under our dysfunctional system is a high-wire act that requires balancing the high-risk, high-cost business of drug discovery against the dubious math of drug pricing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
One should bear in mind that there is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous to administer, than to introduce new political orders.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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