problematic
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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
Ohl criticised this view of masculinity as problematic, warning it normalised an idea of "the biological male who is potentially more violent and aggressive".
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
In 2022, more than a third of executions in the US were botched or highly problematic, the organisation said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
More problematic is that she has showed little depth or growth over the series run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is not surprising that the history of science is a problematic activity, because science itself constantly claims to escape from its own temporal specificity, its own artificiality.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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