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touchiest

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And food is one of the touchiest characteristics for sure.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

The book’s timing remains among the touchiest of topics.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2020

He willingly wades into the NBA MVP debate, the touchiest of all NBA topics.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017

Another reason the study can’t definitively show its touchiest suggestion—that mammograms were overdiagnosing cancers—is no one knows what is happening to these early stage cancers.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2012

He was about the touchiest guy I ever met.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger