problematic
Example Sentences
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The company said the problematic message board activity effectively got started when "one agent left a request for help, and others discovered it."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
She’s extremely interested in the ways problematic movies can be reclaimed by the real-life minority figures depicted in them, and what can be gleaned from studying these films’ merits.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
So that was a really problematic maturity curve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
A lot of dyed-in-the-wool activists were turned off by the flippancy of AOC’s riposte, and even with my own recent grappling over the problematic emotional landscape of the movement, I can understand why.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
So, willy-nilly, a little fragment of problematic facticity was let loose in the world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing problematic
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