difficulty

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Six others were rescued, with one of them taken to hospital requiring urgent care, after migrants got into difficulty boarding a boat near Calais on Wednesday morning.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

“Something that I have been feeling since I was young is a sense of difficulty connecting in real life,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

But Iranian forces continue to operate mobile systems and launch retaliatory attacks, underscoring the regime’s resilience and the difficulty of neutralizing its long‑range capabilities completely.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Paired with modern airborne methods, the old maps can help target and reduce the cost of subsurface mapping—especially due to the difficulty and expense of operating in modern-day Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

“What is the employment you had in view, Mr. Rivers? I hope this delay will not have increased the difficulty of securing it.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë