problematic
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“He truly is sort of the cool uncle personified, in which he would never be the problematic one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
This was potentially problematic because that’s where he lived and had for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
After all, who could ever imagine anyone in the Rio Grande Valley supporting a problematic celebrity?
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Instead of relying on drugs that target individual cancer-related processes, their approach uses microRNAs, small pieces of genetic material capable of suppressing the activity of multiple problematic genes at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
So, willy-nilly, a little fragment of problematic facticity was let loose in the world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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