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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of problematize.

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Examples

  • "I'm finding it hard to introduce myself, actually, because the whole idea of social introductions is so problematized," says one of the hipster semioticians.

    Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011

  • What I was remembering was a review of Bauckham in which you sought to problematized some of his neat conclusions about divine identity by saying that it was not so easy to say that God never shared it in contemporary Jewish literature.

    The Development of Christology James F. McGrath 2010

  • It's still unusual, exotic ... and not yet re-problematized, as all new, exotic things are.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • The meeting of oriental and occidental wisdom problematized (and impregnated) the mind with new possibilities, from meditation and health to accounting, the architecture of time, and the cosmos.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • It's still unusual, exotic ... and not yet re-problematized, as all new, exotic things are.

    The "Missing Black Woman Formation" 2008

  • At the same time, African-Jamaican cultural elites shared in a trajectory of African diaspora thought concerned with black advancement that problematized the figure of the black woman.

    James Warren: This Week in Magazines: The "Test Madness" of Our Medical Lives 2009

  • So on behalf of all of us problematized,vagina bearing beings….

    Of Course Something Is Wrong With Your Vagina Renee 2009

  • An additional delightful feature of the book is the inclusion of multicultural sci-fi rather than simply "Western" works, as well as highlighting the ways in which sci-fi authors have treated and helpfully problematized issues related to gender and sexuality.

    Archive 2009-08-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • She has advanced the development of an amalgamation of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi sources in a single musical composition, a synthesis that can be interpreted as a nostalgic return to — and reaffirmation of — one of the most potent ideas in the history of Zionist ideology: the Israeli social melting pot (kur ha-hitukh), so often problematized and ridiculed in recent post-Zionist discourse.

    Betty Olivero. 2009

  • It seems that it is always women's bodies and behaviors that are problematized, while men's go unexamined.

    Lisa Wade: The "Ticking Clock" and the Mommy/Daddy Double Standard 2009

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