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“You are not solving the right problem, which is the mental-health crisis,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“We need to stop asking whose case is this, and rather ask how do we solve this case together? How do we solve the problem together?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"As long as that problem exists, Lebanon will never truly get peace," US State Secretary Marco Rubio said after meeting Aoun on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Burnham also promised a new kind of politics – re-using his recent catchphrase of "problem solving not point scoring".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Calm down. If this is really a problem for you, I can take you out the back entrance, so you don’t ruin this workshop for everyone else.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Bisignano ran into problems with his old firm when he recruited a number of JPMorgan executives to join him at First Data, which JPMorgan said violated his separation agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
After the landmark went viral on a TikTok video with more than one million views, nearby residents claimed they had been "suffering" because of the traffic and litter problems.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Unfortunately, raptors get lead poisoning often, and that’s one of the problems we deal with,” she said, noting that their recent patient has yet to be diagnosed with this.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He contrasts that with "more sophisticated methods in the past of our field" that "wouldn't be able to even start going for some of these three-dimensional problems, because they're so big."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
I wanted to know if there was anything that could be done about my problems, but I couldn’t decide how much I wanted them to know about me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Academic Vocabulary: Core Tier 2 Words, List 1
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