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the troublesome news that there will be more cuts in the school budget
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For watchmakers, this lack of consensus makes developing a world-time complication that can account for DST a wildly troublesome proposition.
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Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024
These locations don’t offer the same benefits as TSMC’s home of Taiwan, or Samsung’s home of Korea: less expertise, higher costs and more troublesome regulations.
—Jaemin Lee, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
The department would dispatch an investigator to schools and request teachers cease troublesome lessons or else face potential discipline, Horne said.
—Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
But the storm this weekend will usher in more widespread and troublesome.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
Providence functions as the ultimate answer to all troublesome questions about evil and pain: trust the plan, and its final revelation.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
In one of its most troublesome effects, the storm closed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in both directions, shutting down the major highway link between the two sides of the bay.
—Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
Margaret’s frequent dips into these pools also transformed her previously troublesome skin, prompting her and Stephen to work with a venerable lab to harness the water’s abundant minerals into absorbent bio-available compounds and create her skincare brand in 2006.
—Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024
Tobin found the fact that Schiff did not support a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war troublesome.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024
These locations don’t offer the same benefits as TSMC’s home of Taiwan, or Samsung’s home of Korea: less expertise, higher costs and more troublesome regulations.
—Jaemin Lee, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
The department would dispatch an investigator to schools and request teachers cease troublesome lessons or else face potential discipline, Horne said.
—Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
But the storm this weekend will usher in more widespread and troublesome.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
Providence functions as the ultimate answer to all troublesome questions about evil and pain: trust the plan, and its final revelation.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
In one of its most troublesome effects, the storm closed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in both directions, shutting down the major highway link between the two sides of the bay.
—Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
Margaret’s frequent dips into these pools also transformed her previously troublesome skin, prompting her and Stephen to work with a venerable lab to harness the water’s abundant minerals into absorbent bio-available compounds and create her skincare brand in 2006.
—Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024
Tobin found the fact that Schiff did not support a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war troublesome.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
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troublesome
adjective
trou·ble·some
ˈtrəb-əl-səm 
1
: requiring or involving continued or tiring effort, attention, or study : difficult, burdensome
a troublesome task
2
: giving trouble or anxiety
troublesome news
troublesomely
adverb
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