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Recent Examples of troublous Then there were the ghoulish figures of revolutionary adventurers, the Mexican painter with two pistols in his belt, the men who were carving themselves careers out of these troublous times. John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for troublous
Adjective
  • Content moderators are workers who remove disturbing content from social media—data which is often then used to train AI systems like ChatGPT or Facebook’s algorithms.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 19 June 2025
  • These stories reveal a disturbing truth: AI can automate and amplify existing biases, leading to real-world injustice.
    Sajal Singh, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • The other shoe dropped with an unsettling thud recently when White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt openly gay-bashed in defense of her controversial boss.
    Louis Balsamo, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025
  • Some messages were sweet, others were steamy, and some were even unsettling.
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Experts said state health exchanges’ use of advertising trackers was troubling if not entirely surprising.
    Colin Lecher, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • The research community has long warned of troubling links to chronic disease, especially for children, and have called for more government oversight of the plastic, fossil fuel and chemical industries.
    Will Stone, NPR, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Not surprisingly, its 2025 proxy statement reveals the toxic governance triumvirate – incentives, incompetence and indifference – that lures troublesome attention from both hackers and activists.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • The big screen has played host to a never-ending spate of troublesome man-eating sharks ever since Steven Spielberg's killer-fish spectacle.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps not helping so much: The set’s early reviews, which have been mostly fairly nasty in their dismissals of the set.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 25 June 2025
  • Again there are two levels here, and each radically altered the color profile of the onscreen visuals – with the high setting giving everything a nasty green hue.
    Paul Ridden June 25, New Atlas, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Which isn’t to say that the film isn’t frightening.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
  • The fumes are certainly easier to ignore or deny than the visceral, immediate violence of serial murder—which is much rarer, and yet, for many, much more frightening.
    Sarah Weinman, The Atlantic, 18 June 2025

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“Troublous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/troublous. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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