trouble
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Liam McDonald said people did not want to see any more "trouble or strife"
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
I’m having trouble selling it on StubHub because I waited a while to list it and had to mark up the cost in order to have a chance of making back what I paid.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
The painful details came out in the courtroom: A former friend who’d played for the Cincinnati Bengals and then became a local real-estate developer had gotten himself in legal trouble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Los Angeles officials are bracing for more trouble if the forecast “super” El Niño brings heavy rains and flooding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Not Lord Cunningham’s stream, is it? You’ll find enough trouble without poaching there.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Spanish economist and author Daniel Lacalle, in a recent conversation with MarketWatch, says France – along with the U.K. and Japan – are the countries whose financial troubles could spill across the borders.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
If there's a silver lining to be found in the ginkgo's troubles, it's that the campaign to keep it alive has brought the people of Buam-dong closer together.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"I face no troubles here," said Mohammad Iqbal, a 53-year-old painter from Uttar Pradesh state who has worked in Kashmir since before the insurgency began and is now accompanied by his son.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
It chose that name to distance itself from earlier troubles when it was ICN Pharmaceuticals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
And for that moment, the Vanderbeeker kids forgot their troubles and joined the adults in loud applause and cheers.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
That idea clashes with the classical expectation that each particle should possess its own separate physical reality, a feature of quantum mechanics that famously troubled Albert Einstein.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
A last-gasp Ollie Watkins strike was needed to beat the Netherlands in the semis while Kane was not at full fitness and without him at his best, the team never troubled a formidable Spain side.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
One portfolio, known as FS Rialto 2021-FL3, is particularly troubled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The stock market stabilized on Thursday after the central bank injected liquidity into the financial system, placed the troubled funds under the control of banks and announced plans to dissolve them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Grief and sadness crease the corners of her mouth; tears fall freely from her troubled face.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But the near-disaster has sent a shudder through a region racked by three years of war, and raised a host of troubling possibilities that officials are just beginning to investigate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
He said the backdrop of seeing all the world’s developed bond markets selling off simultaneously was troubling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
That is "deeply troubling", Beyer said, particularly because the administration is required to give 48 hours notice before work can begin.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
More troubling, in 2017 he started a GoFundMe to raise money for the first medbed prototype.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
I’m not positive, but I think he probably got the message, too, because after his last, troubling phone call, he pulled a Lance Winters and quit on me altogether.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
