problematic
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Finding a place of their own has proved problematic.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
She adds that targeting dyes is a “good first step,” but they’re certainly not the only problematic additive the FDA should strictly regulate.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
But the director, who wrote his adaptation in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo, also isn’t content with mere novelistic faithfulness to an author whose traces of colonial allegory in “The Stranger” have often been found problematic.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
If Apple cannot deliver the foldable iPhone this year, that’s potentially problematic, Luria said in emailed comments.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
At both the social and verbal levels, in short, an American nation remained a precarious and highly problematic project—at best a work in progress.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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