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as in threat
something that may cause injury or harm that wild dog is trouble, so stay away

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verb

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Recent Examples of trouble
Noun
Earnings trouble for megacaps could not have come at a worse time for U.S. markets. Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025 This latest development isn’t 6ix9ine’s first brush with trouble while on supervised release. Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
Uncertainty around the mounting trade war has troubled markets lately, sending stocks lower to begin the year. Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025 The last week-and-a-half has been a blast and she’s played like someone who can compete against and trouble the elite. Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trouble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trouble
Noun
  • However, in the U.S., the CDC has concluded there is no evidence that pesticides are effective in preventing these diseases and does not recommend this practice.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The Harmattan facilitates the spread of diseases, such as influenza.
    Christophe Lavaysse, JSTOR Daily, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Combs had offered up to $50 million to wait for his trial from his home on Star Island, but prosecutors insisted the musician was a threat to witnesses and victims.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • As election denial, steered by Trump, ran rampant, local election workers across the country faced a barrage of violent threats, accusations of misdeeds and intense scrutiny from riled, partisan vigilantes during the 2022 midterm elections.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Irving with Anthony Davis, Dereck Lively, Daniel Gafford along with Klay Thompson and P.J. Washington - that’s a team that would have been a problem.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Another problem: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to hear its challenge of a rule that prevents a president from firing independent agency board members without cause.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • More recently, the CFPB has been a top target of Mr. Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, led by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, which has sought sweeping cuts to the federal workforce.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The team hopes that the discovery showing the ancient human connection to great bustards spurs more conservation efforts to keep this population from going extinct.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This enables enterprises to select trustworthy models, enforce AI risk policies, and respond to emerging threats in real time.
    Dasha Shunina, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Pushing for a federal insurance pool would lessen the financial risk of covering foster care agencies, benefiting nonprofits and children across the nation.
    Joseph T. Monahan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Victims of car collisions may have more to worry about as insurance companies warn drivers to be aware of a growing scam involving tow truck companies.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Critics worry that other anti-democratic actors will be taking cues from Bukele to curry favor with this particular president.
    David Catanese, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow was popular enough that fans wanted a solo story, but the studio didn't bother to make it until her character was already dead in the major timeline, then skipped the theatrical release, which Johansson sued them about.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The Mavericks defeated the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night in Sacramento, 120-106; the Mavs led by more than 20 points in the first half, and the Kings never bothered to muster much of a run to make this interesting.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.
    Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2025
  • That October, Néstor died of a heart ailment, and the next month Bergoglio was called to testify in front of a panel of judges about the abduction, more than thirty years earlier, of the Jesuit priests.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Trouble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trouble. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.

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