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There was a collective swoon when news came through on Thursday that McTominay, the totem, had an iffy tummy, but he's good now.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting men” begins with the iffy premise that extremely online discourse drives what people care about offline.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Wait for June, when I’ll start barking like a sea lion about the thrill of seeing Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembélé, Lionel Messi’s presumed Argentina finale and the very iffy hopes of the U.S. men’s team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

The best hope for a potential superbloom is if SoCal gets some cool, wet weather next week, Fraga said, but the chances of that are iffy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

They were only lukewarm about his prospects, eyeing that iffy left foreleg and pronouncing the horse only “serviceably useful.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

And remember that the door is typically the warmest place in the fridge, so it's fine for pickles and soda but iffier for shorter shelf life items like milk.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023

A welcome exception to the iffier interviewees is Tony Chicotel, a lawyer and expert on long-term-care rights and California law.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

The program’s supposed benefits look even iffier when weighed against its human costs, which are often easier to identify — children growing up without being able to visit fathers, for instance.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2017

Once you expand the conversation beyond our most domesticated companion, the prospects get even iffier.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2016

In the present tense, might is used rather than may to describe an iffier situation.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

But the resulting expansion falls prey to that iffiest of modern-day horror movie conventions: an “opening up” narrative that too often feels like a shutting down of what’s truly scary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023