troublesome
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"Surge-type glaciers are very unusual and can be troublesome," said lead author Dr. Harold Lovell, Senior Lecturer and glaciologist from the University of Portsmouth's School of the Environment and Life Sciences.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
Their troublesome toilet, which cost $23m to design, had problems with its plumbing.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
The proliferation of shell companies in Hong Kong is so troublesome that U.S. authorities began in October to target the addresses of businesses that handle the paperwork of establishing a company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Its explanation, however, in effect said that AI didn’t generate the troublesome software coding itself, but did give an engineer instructions about how to write the code — erroneously.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Indeed, the Pythagoreans had tried to squelch another troublesome mathematical concept—the irrational.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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