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the constantly changing schedule was somewhat vexing, but I coped
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Paying Attention To Process One of the most vexing problems in assessing student work is that one sees only the end-stage result rather than the process of its production.
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Public access has become a vexing issue as wealthy landowners purchase more property along the West’s mountain streams and rivers.
—Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2024
The crackdown in a liberal bastion shows just how deeply fentanyl has entrenched itself in San Francisco and exacerbated some of the tech hub’s most vexing problems, from homelessness to downtown revival.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
My attraction became instantly to this idea of a talent like Bob, so vexing, so provocative, so filled with fiction and fact.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2024
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Public access has become a vexing issue as wealthy landowners purchase more property along the West’s mountain streams and rivers.
—Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2024
The crackdown in a liberal bastion shows just how deeply fentanyl has entrenched itself in San Francisco and exacerbated some of the tech hub’s most vexing problems, from homelessness to downtown revival.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
My attraction became instantly to this idea of a talent like Bob, so vexing, so provocative, so filled with fiction and fact.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2024
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“Vexing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vexing. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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