Example Sentences

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Difficulties retrieving the sounds of these words is one early indicator that a child may have reading difficulties in the future.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Difficulties in school caused by memory, hard mental tasks and decision making may also emerge.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024

Difficulties adjusting the craft's solar panel array toward the sun are preventing the craft from generating electricity.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2024

Difficulties abounded — but so did sherbet-colored sunsets, whale sharks and a renewed belief in the gods of serendipity and adventure.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Difficulties from an unexpected quarter added to the confusion into which, as the result of the Act of 1711, the Post Office was drifting.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert