embarrassing problem
Example Sentences
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Back then, the State Department had an embarrassing problem.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020
Target’s Twitter account was hacked and used for a bitcoin scam Twitter has an embarrassing problem where people take over verified accounts and then use them to run Bitcoin scams.
From The Verge • Nov. 14, 2018
MOX is a nuclear fuel invented by governments to address the embarrassing problem of what to do with separated plutonium.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2013
Mr. Pimentel argued that the energy generated by the Belo Monte dam would provide dependable electricity to millions of Brazilians and help solve an embarrassing problem — blackouts.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2012
How to win this girl and at the same time ruin her father was an embarrassing problem.
From Man on the Box by MacGrath, Harold
