problematic
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In the haste to disrupt the obesity epidemic, weight loss has been treated as the singular, undisputed metric of success, which experts say is problematic.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
This is particularly problematic for consumer discretionary companies—those that sell nonessential goods ands services.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has also acknowledged using errant figures to justify a fraud probe in New York, deepening concerns in the administration’s methods for identifying problematic activity.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
There’s another feature that market participants say could be problematic.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Every year they fill out questionnaires on pronunciation, meaning, and usage, and the dictionary reports the results in usage notes attached to entries for problematic words.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing problematic
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