difficulty
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Adding to the difficulty, visible symptoms sometimes develop only after mushrooms have been shipped to grocery stores or purchased by consumers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The difficulty is finding a way to minimize their capacity to control territory without trampling republican values.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Her early symptoms began in 2008 during her Taking Chances World Tour, when she experienced difficulty controlling her voice despite doctors saying her vocal cords appeared normal, she shared with Vogue in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Through his story, the play explores losing a sense of purpose, the difficulty some men have talking about their mental health and the support they can find in each other.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Both sensed that people, and by extension markets, had difficulty attaching the appropriate probabilities to highly improbable events.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The international opposition to his Greenland proposal is just one of the difficulties of annexation today.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Although effective, these substances can create difficulties involving safe handling, chemical waste, and the treatment of unwanted byproducts.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The climate surrounding routine abductions, he adds, has "generated further difficulties on the youth of Myanmar, already affected by years of civil war, and their families".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
It is a sign of how intractable China’s economic difficulties are—and the structural challenges leader Xi Jinping faces in addressing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The tangent problem and the area problem both ran afoul of the same difficulties with infinities and zeros.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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