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The problem was that Baker struggled to command the pitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The bigger problem is that he makes decisions without telling me.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
During the investigation, the team noticed a problem that immediately called the original timeline into question.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Kingdom, “An action is arbitrary and capricious when the agency relies on inappropriate factors, fails to consider important aspects of the problem, or ignores relevant evidence.”
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
Grandpa knew that I wasn’t too good with figures, and he was all the time making up some kind of an old arithmetic problem for me to work on.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
When Perseverance travels toward the Sun, mission planners currently stop driving by mid-afternoon to avoid these problems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
The issue, dubbed PHP2Shell, represents a class of problems in the way PHP manages a computer’s memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
His name was mentioned in social media videos, including on Kurdish Facebook pages, where business owners in the UK praised his ability to resolve problems linked to immigration fines.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
California’s hospice industry has had problems in the past and authorities have tried to crack down on the issue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Within minutes of waking, the tangle of problems that had flummoxed Penelope so thoroughly the previous evening had somehow sorted themselves into neat skeins of wool, as it were.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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