- plural of difficulty.
difficulties
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In the opening track “Lugares,” Selines meets her acoustic guitar strumming with a velvety croon, singing of leaping into the unknown — despite understanding the difficulties that will come from leaving home.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
But despite the difficulties, she said women love working outdoors together.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
Cuba will face enormous difficulties in implementing the measures, said Pavel Vidal, a Cuban economist at the Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
Compton Unified has been screening students for math difficulties three times a year for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, according to Jennifer Moon, Compton Unified’s executive director of educational services for K-8.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026
Of course there were massive accounting problems in calculating the different state debts, not the least of the difficulties being sloppy records kept by several southern states, with Virginia topping the list for administrative disarray.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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