difficulty
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In 2024, the Royals were demoted from tier two to tier five after the club fell into financial difficulty, while the Addicks were disbanded entirely in 2007 after the men's team suffered relegation.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The difficulty lies in the technology’s combination of extreme complexity with extreme precision, said Chris Miller, a historian of technology at Tufts University and author of “Chip War.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Much of that uncertainty comes from the difficulty of determining how quickly Antarctica will lose ice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
"I was floating like a dead body, and after great difficulty managed to raise my head slightly."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The sheer difficulty they had obtaining the information suggested that most investors were simply skipping this stage of their due diligence.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Where difficulties will arise is in the sectors where the cheap-money era is most embedded: private equity and private credit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
However, only around 5,000 people a year will be eligible - based on the extent of their walking difficulties.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
During a meeting Wednesday between Wang and Philippine counterpart Theresa Lazaro, China's top diplomat noted "persistent difficulties and challenges in recent years" facing relations, according to a statement by Beijing's foreign ministry.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Tracing its source poses particular difficulties for two reasons: an incubation period of up to two weeks before symptoms first appear, and lack of a genetic fingerprint, unlike, say, E. coli.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The tangent problem and the area problem both ran afoul of the same difficulties with infinities and zeros.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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