tricky

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“When he arrives at Southwark House as a terse, brusque, tricky man, you’ve already experienced his level of affection with his wife and that’s really important contextually,” Haig says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

“It’s more just, ‘I know this can be tricky, and I really need to get it right.’”

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

That’s a tricky landscape for Warsh, who was sworn in as Fed Chair last week, to navigate as the central bank seeks to tame inflation pressures without slowing broader economic growth.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The most serious question arises from so-called “charming penguins,” a set of processes present in the Standard Model, whose contributions are extremely tricky to predict.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

Sometimes it’s a good thing to take a break from all that, but it does get tricky when surrounded by people who don’t always say what they mean.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers