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trouble

[truhb-uhl] / ˈtrʌb əl /








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Chip stocks have slipped up in recent days but that isn’t a sign of trouble for the companies that manufacture chip makers’ equipment, according to Barclays.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

One of the rules I came to live by during my years of covering global trouble spots is: “Never assume that things can’t get worse.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

If he tried to have a Hollywood birthday, he’d run into the same trouble he had lining up musical entertainment for the nation’s semiquincentennial Freedom 250 event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Police said there was little trouble and few arrests had been made.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

“I was bound to work with the family until I was eighteen. But once Auntie Matchmaker found your ba for me, I told the tai-tai about the trouble with her husband. She let me go.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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