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a situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices
I'm in a quandary about whether I should try to repair my stereo or buy a new one, even though I don't have the money to do either
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For Jodi Picoult — the author of 29 books, including Mad Honey, Handle With Care, and My Sister’s Keeper — politics has always gone hand in hand with writing novels about moral quandaries and familial sagas.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
After 50+ years exploring the far corners of the world, the director focuses inward — on the human brain, via the cutting-edge field of neuroscience, with its attendant ethical quandaries.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
Photographing one’s parents brings out these familiar, yet still fundamental, ethical quandaries.
—Max Norman, ARTnews.com, 9 Dec. 2024
These types of project selection quandaries are reflected in new research, which models the effectiveness of common decision methods such as voting, scoring, and ranking.
—Ronald Klingebiel
lucas Böttcher, Harvard Business Review, 2 Dec. 2024
But assuming consciousness in other species brings up profound moral quandaries.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
The technique proved broadly applicable to a host of optimization problems—mathematical quandaries in which one ideal solution is selected from a very large number of possibilities.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2024
Sometimes, at least, the contestants are faced with intriguing dilemmas or moral quandaries.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
After 50+ years exploring the far corners of the world, the director focuses inward — on the human brain, via the cutting-edge field of neuroscience, with its attendant ethical quandaries.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
Photographing one’s parents brings out these familiar, yet still fundamental, ethical quandaries.
—Max Norman, ARTnews.com, 9 Dec. 2024
These types of project selection quandaries are reflected in new research, which models the effectiveness of common decision methods such as voting, scoring, and ranking.
—Ronald Klingebiel
lucas Böttcher, Harvard Business Review, 2 Dec. 2024
But assuming consciousness in other species brings up profound moral quandaries.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
The technique proved broadly applicable to a host of optimization problems—mathematical quandaries in which one ideal solution is selected from a very large number of possibilities.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2024
Sometimes, at least, the contestants are faced with intriguing dilemmas or moral quandaries.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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