troubling
Example Sentences
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Permanent job losers are no longer rising in the same troubling way.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finally eliminated one of its most unfair practices and most troubling examples of administrative overreach: the “gag rule.”
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Cooney: It is troubling, but it’s not troubling on a personal level, because it’s not about the effort we put into it, to have it undone.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
Now came an apology - Dogra was "deeply sorry", she said, and had found the women's accounts "very troubling" to watch.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
And as he dug deeper into the Papers, another form of deception began to emerge, one even more troubling than the lies.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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