Example Sentences

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Permanent job losers are no longer rising in the same troubling way.

From MarketWatch • 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

Cooney: It is troubling, but it’s not troubling on a personal level, because it’s not about the effort we put into it, to have it undone.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Now came an apology - Dogra was "deeply sorry", she said, and had found the women's accounts "very troubling" to watch.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The son sought to calm her—berating us for troubling her—and now the younger child began his bleating and wailing, that he would not leave his father’s house.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson