trouble spot

noun

: a place where violence or war often happens

Examples of trouble spot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The most recent trouble spot, a slow-moving hillside near Mariposa Point along the San Clemente Beach Trail, has stopped all passenger traffic since Jan. 24. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024 The United States has not brought peace to the region, turned dictatorships into democracies, or otherwise transformed a perennial trouble spot into a zone of peace; but the U.S. presence, on balance, has helped preserve the United States’ interests and those of its allies. Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2024 Third trouble spot emerges along coastal railroad track in San Clemente A new landslide Wednesday in a different spot at San Clemente has again closed the troubled railroad link between San Diego and Orange County. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024 The headwinds buffeting the market are well documented: China’s real estate sector remains a trouble spot, deflationary pressures are building and a long-running feud between Beijing and Washington refuses to go away, with the US election set to take place later this year. Abhishek Vishnoi, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2024 Cruise might have a problem with intersections Enlarge Cruise’s other trouble spot is intersections. Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2023 But another foreign trouble spot is now preoccupying Washington: the rogue nuclear state of North Korea. Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024 Simply place a clear patch over the trouble spot, and voilà! Erin Michelle Newberg, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 Hard to imagine anyone just ignoring an IRS letter that flags a potential trouble spot involving fraud or ID theft. Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 2023

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“Trouble spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trouble%20spot. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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