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Meanings of problematic in English

Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.

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Open to doubt or debate.

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Usage of problematic in English
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However, compliance with weekly intake might be problematic outside a research programme.
Pubmed
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He has been given a number of problematic areas to deal with.
The Irish Times
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Indeed it's an area where simplistic solutions can be problematic, she said.
News.com.au
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Nannoconus An example of stratigraphically useful fossils although their identification remains problematic.
The Guardian
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However, overhauls to the U.S. healthcare industry make such an addition problematic.
Reuters
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Fellow Olympic gymnast Simone Biles even criticized Douglas' problematic point of view.
Ebony
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The proliferation of private security operators in Afghanistan could be problematic, however.
Wired
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The standard procedure for developing TPB questionnaires may systematically produce problematic questions.
Pubmed
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Also problematic throughout is the fact that several key scenes occur off-screen.
Reuters
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Hearing threshold identification in very young children is always problematic and challenging.
Pubmed
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Facebook has dealt with problematic user-generated content in the past, he said.
Reuters
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Storage is still going to be problematic, a New England-based trader said.
Reuters
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He said the speed at which they were created also proved problematic.
Radio NZ
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According to his research, most of the companies in Wuxi were problematic.
Don't Cry Tai Lake
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Accountability of local NHS services to local people has always been problematic.
The Guardian
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Some emissaries are problematic because of their point or species of origin.
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