troubling
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However, it also raises troubling questions for the booming high-altitude tourism industry, and shines a spotlight on the deadly risks Sherpas who work on Mount Everest face.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Permanent job losers are no longer rising in the same troubling way.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
This is a bit of a disingenuous response; many stories of Platner’s troubling behavior come from less than “a decade ago.”
From Slate • Jun. 5, 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
The method gave the right answer, but Newton’s vanishing act was very troubling.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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