knotty question
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The knotty question is what to do next.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 15, 2022
“Truth” in memoir is a knotty question to begin with, but at evangelical publishing houses, there’s an extra layer of complexity.
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2019
Specifics are under wraps, but the episode seems centred around a big, knotty question: if someone’s essence can be transplanted into a mechanised clone, where do we end and robots begin?
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2019
The Boston attack, on April 15, raises a knotty question not just about that incident but also about other high-profile ones in April: Was it symbolically tied to the month — or just happenstance?
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2016
His second letter dealt with the knotty question of land tenure.
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John
