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- adjective
superlative form ofthorny : mostthorny .
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Examples
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"thorniest" problems that IBM's customers are having integrating technology into their businesses, rather than developing any specific technology.
CNET News.com 2008
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"thorniest" problems that IBM's customers are having integrating technology into their businesses, rather than developing any specific technology.
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- Eight Republican presidential candidates sparred in a debate here Saturday night over how to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and whether to cut foreign aid to Pakistan, reflecting deep divides over some of the nation's thorniest foreign policy questions.
Republicans Argue on Afghanistan, Iran, Torture Valerie Bauerlein 2011
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The deer were likely hunkered down in the thickest, nastiest, thorniest stuff in the area to get out of the weather, and avoid hunting pressure.
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Geometric and algebraic proofs abound, although the thorniest derivations are tucked into appendices.
All Hail the Hypotenuse Alan Hirshfeld 2011
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Unfortunately, Mr. Patry dances around the thorniest problem with copyright laws: the fact that some Internet companies see them as suggestions rather than statutes and build businesses based largely on infringement.
The Cost of Free Culture Robert Levine 2012
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If I were Michele Obama I would be the thorniest thorn about getting to the bottom of this.
WH: Security screeners failed to ask about dinner crashers 2009
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The deer were likely hunkered down in the thickest, nastiest, thorniest stuff in the area to get out of the weather, and avoid hunting pressure.
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But price may still be Muscadet's thorniest problem.
Cheap but Charming: Dipping Into Muscadet Lettie Teague 2011
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Meaningful progress on each of these is possible in Durban; but it is on the largest and thorniest issues of all -- the future of the Kyoto Protocol and the prospect of a new legally binding treaty -- that attention is beginning to focus.
Michael Jacobs: Could There Yet Be Hope in Durban? Michael Jacobs 2011
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