difficulties

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 13% of U.S. adults have hearing difficulties.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Higher fuel prices are creating difficulties for small businesses, according to a recent survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

However, the organisation's data suggests housing was at the centre of many cases, often linked to financial stress or relationship difficulties.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

"These difficulties are just unpleasantries," she told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

This discovery presented fundamental difficulties for any account of how the compass worked, but it also raised the exciting possibility that variation might be sufficiently regular for it to be used to measure longitude.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton