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issue

[ish-oo, is-yoo] / ˈɪʃ u, ˈɪs ju /


NOUN
edition of publication
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Usage

What are other ways to say issue? The verb issue is often used of a number of persons, a mass of matter, or a volume of smoke, sound, or the like, coming forth through any outlet or outlets: The crowd issued from the building. Emerge is used of coming forth from a place shut off from view, or from concealment, or the like, into sight and notice: The sun emerges from behind the clouds. Emanate is used of intangible things, as light or ideas, spreading from a source: Rumors often emanate from irresponsible persons.

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A measure of the stress: France has to pay about 0.85 percentage point in additional interest than Germany to issue a 10-year bond, near its widest point in years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

He said he was "looking forward" to recommendations on how to tackle the issue from Milburn.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The National Women’s Law Center works across virtually every issue affecting women and girls in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Chaves’s finance ministry didn’t respond to a request for comment on the issue.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

“It's not an issue, Ella. We didn't want to worry you or your parents. There will always be people who try to thwart change,” Headmarveller Rivera said.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

The impact on public schools—from verdicts, settlements and retroactive insurance premiums—is approaching $4 billion, said Michael Fine, chief executive of a state task force that advises school districts on fiscal issues.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

For more bearish investors, those issues raised questions about whether turning around the business is realistic.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Burnham said that while he could not make promises, he would be "open to the conversation", and that with "wider policing reform" going on it was a "good time to look at those issues".

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The latter gave rise to the idea that fans had a right to know more about their favorite artists, up to and including where they stood on specific political issues.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

Critical issues in music education: Contemporary theory and practice.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

It issued a similar warning to TikTok in February.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

The California attorney general has also issued a warning to parents, and retailers, that bicycles that are altered to exceed state limitations are no longer considered legal to ride on the streets.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Governments in advanced economies alone are expected to borrow $18 trillion this year, according to the OECD, and are increasingly competing for buyers with stocks and bonds issued by U.S. tech companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

The Met Office has issued fresh warnings for thunderstorms that will bring more wet weather to parts of the UK on Thursday.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

A stark warning issued by survival school instructors flashed through his mind—never wear wedding rings into combat.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

She recalled issuing a marriage license to a 16-year-old girl and man in his late teens or early 20s, and felt that the girl’s parents had forced them to wed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

He has spent a decade arguing that central bankers talk too much, by issuing forecasts that harden into commitments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is issuing a public apology for what it says is decades of mismanagement and misdiagnosis in the UK.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

State laws on the subject vary considerably, with some prohibiting commercial surrogacy and others liberally permitting it and even issuing parentage orders before birth.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Missy hardly noticed, just hurtled forward full speed, a magnificent roar issuing from her wide-open maw.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older




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