trouble
Example Sentences
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MUNICH—Ask a European official who attended this weekend’s Munich Security Conference about the state of the trans-Atlantic relationship, and you’re likely to hear metaphors about dealing with a troubled, possibly abusive, spouse.
“The huge swings go well beyond mere rotation and could certainly indicate something less benign and more troubling,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.
From MarketWatch
The scans revealed that children who had more trouble with math showed weaker activity in areas involved in monitoring performance and adjusting behavior.
From Science Daily
“I realized we were potentially not even going to have a real competition, and that troubled me,” Raman said.
From Los Angeles Times
Unexplained absences can be an early sign of political trouble in China, though officials are known to have missed engagements for innocuous reasons such as illness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
