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troubled

  • past participle
    of trouble.
    trouble
    verb (used with object)
    to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • past tense form
    of trouble.
    trouble
    verb (used with object)
    to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • a word derived from trouble.
    trouble
    verb (used with object)
    to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.

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Mark Walter’s holding company plans to buy up to $6.5 billion in assets from a troubled life insurer he controls that is at the center of a controversy over his sale of the Lakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

But mainstream culture’s best-known Green Lanterns aren’t orphans or troubled.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

“We are not troubled by those comments from Netanyahu,” a senior U.S. official told Israel’s leading TV station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

They didn’t smile or nod or look approvingly at me in that heartwarming way teachers always do in made-for-TV movies when the troubled student has turned over a new leaf.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen