real issue
Example Sentences
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“The real issue is, if you should slow down, then stop running so fast and don’t wait for somebody else to make you do that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The real issue here is less about money and more about open communication and — most important — sensitivity.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
And as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned in her solo dissenting opinion from the per curiam order, the real issue is not that the court punted a decision on the merits here.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
“That shortfall of emergency public information that was the real issue here,” Botterell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Remorse aside, Farmer and Jim knew the clinical facts of Jack’s death were the real issue.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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