sensitive

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Its ambassador to Pakistan also reportedly said efforts by the mediator country were reaching a “critical sensitive stage.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Any public discussion of violence is sensitive in Mexico, where, polls show, citizens call security their most pressing concern.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

The U.S. destroyed two MC-130Js and two MH-6 helicopters after the mission to prevent sensitive technology from being compromised.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

"Human eyes and brains are highly sensitive to subtle changes in colour, texture, and other surface characteristics," it says.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

In this, 14 and 17, the vanishing point, incomprehensible in Aristotelian terms, is mysteriously obscured, showing how sensitive artists were to the clash between mathematics and philosophy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton