tricky
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He needed to film a violinist from a tricky angle and a drone seemed the only solution – expect that it would be far too noisy.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Edward Norton, “The Invite” “The favorite is Garfield, who plays tricky billionaire Sam Altman in ‘Artificial.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“I think the bar is high for many companies, and with cautious to negative market sentiment, it could be a tricky week,” Rahbari said over email.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
Assiduous work ever since has moved it to the point where, while it remains tricky to optimise, it is definitively quicker than the older specification.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Which was tricky to do, but we were both trying.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
Tesla is trickier; Musk noted on the call that 50% of all shares need to be cast in favor of a merger, which he called “quite a high hurdle.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
But answering local queries and frustrations is getting trickier as resistance picks up, with government officials and residents expressing worries about everything from electricity prices to water waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The rise of streaming and the end of monoculture have made it trickier to know when it’s safe to talk about entertainment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Kittens are more likely to improve, but adults are trickier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The other part was trickier, but the waif was there to help her.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
But this also left Anna Handler, who becomes the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s conductor-in-residence this fall, with the trickiest conducting assignment of the summer anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
One of the trickiest parts about having an estranged child is dealing with estate planning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Warmer days often means greater pollen emission and if sunny, dry and breezy they are notoriously the trickiest days for allergy sufferers.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The trickiest part may be settling on a share price -- the cost of one piece of ownership in the company when it first hits the market.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
He always had to prove himself the smartest, the trickiest, and above all, the most renowned.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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