verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a vexed/thorny question (= one that is hard to deal with )
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Finally, there’s the thorny question of money.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vexed question/issue/problem etc
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A paradigm example of this is the vexed question of spatial visualisation.
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And there is another vexed question.
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I shall not turn to the vexed question of the national minimum wage.
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Potentially an even bigger bombshell is about to burst on the vexed question of pension rights.
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The vexed question has always been: Who should write the programs which control these machines?
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Then there is the vexed issue of paying for tax cuts.
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Until recently what was on the child's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question.
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Was the vexed question of extradition discussed at the Council?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But rendering attention to these vexing questions is prudent and the right thing to do.
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The nature of its relationship to the poor is perhaps the most vexing ethical issue that Holy Trinity faces.
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The problem was considered particularly vexing because, as the research of contemporaries showed, it affected middle class women most.