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Adjective
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One of the film’s vexed visual motifs is a mirroring of the encampments at Columbia and the refugee tent cities in Palestine.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025 -
To focus one’s attention on the bare minimum that the laws of war require in extremis is a way to avoid the vexed moral and political problems of the past wars, which America is very much still fighting.—
Colin Jones,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Performance Jones prods the start button and the four-cylinder power plant coughs grumpily into life, then settles to a fretful idle.—
Tim Pitt,
Robb Report,
28 May 2025
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Long wait times became a self-fulfilling prophecy In recent weeks, news of the turmoil at Social Security mobilized fretful Americans to telephone or visit the agency, seeding further chaos.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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“Qualmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualmy. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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