prob·lem·at·ics

[prob-luh-mat-iks]
plural noun
the uncertainties or difficulties inherent in a situation or plan.

Origin:
1955–60; see problematic, -ics

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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