problematic
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Urban planner Clement Gaillard said AC was not problematic as long as it was not used as the only solution.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
You’ll regularly hear them trying to separate a love of their country and its people from support of problematic regimes.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
Ethically, the political context makes such videos "deeply problematic", she says, and on a psychological level, she believes it is unclear whether AI visualisations help people deal with grief or deepen it instead.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
In previous interviews, she said she learned late last year that a city official had given a presentation to council members that depicted her online activity as problematic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Descartes made a strict separation between mind and matter: mind was immaterial and immortal, so that mind’s relationship to the sensory world of space and time was inherently problematic.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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