troubling
Example Sentences
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Permanent job losers are no longer rising in the same troubling way.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
More troubling, the survival benefit faded among older patients.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finally eliminated one of its most unfair practices and most troubling examples of administrative overreach: the “gag rule.”
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
But to watch how far they are eroding in real time, that is what I find so troubling.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
As troubling as they were, these eruptions of hysteria were infrequent.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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