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troubling

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verb

present participle of trouble

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Recent Examples of troubling
Adjective
That means something really troubling and undesirable for physicists. Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2025 While everybody was busy worrying about their brackets and parlays, the NBA world was concentrating on record-breaking sales, positive trends, troubling stretches and some playoff races that give us March Madness! Zach Harper, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025 Admittedly, every previous visit to the pediatrician’s office had begun with the same sense of achievement—only to be deflated by troubling percentiles. Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 The combination of a potential trade war and rising unemployment is particularly troubling news for consumer and business spending and has raised fears of a recession. Samantha Subin, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for troubling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for troubling
Adjective
  • Other times, Claude’s mental activity seems super disturbing and maybe even dangerous.
    Steven Levy, Wired News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Just as disturbing and bizarre, at least one juror originally didn’t want to convict Zeigler at all and didn’t vote to do so until after that same judge ordered the bailiff to give her a Valium.
    Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Overweight and obesity need to be treated safely and effectively to avoid that worrying forecast.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Conclusion While the Fed’s efforts to tame runaway inflation rates has helped market sentiments in the past, its recent hawkish outlook for 2025 is now worrying investors.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Truly pocket sized and weighing just 165g, FiiO says this is the ideal travel companion thanks to 12 hours of battery life and a two-hour fast-charge mode.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Recreationally, Schnell drives vehicles weighing more than 12,000 pounds for stadiums packed with fans.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The sight of a middle aged woman wearing a purple-and-yellow No. 77 Los Angeles Lakers jersey walking down Sunset Blvd. is still unsettling.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Pam Morris, 54, a freelance prop stylist, noticed another unsettling trend a few years ago, when a U.S. client asked her to art-direct a crew in Asia remotely for a shoot.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Rodin Cars The big idea behind Rodin is to build cars without bothering about vehicle regulations – in stark contrast to F1 cars, which are subject to several rules around how they're put together.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The city and state have also been ramping up efforts to engage troubled vagrants sleeping and sometimes bothering straphangers, connecting them with services and shelter and potentially involuntary treatment.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Good news California began trying to police ghost guns after those frightening findings came out, enacting legislation in both 2022 and 2023 to curtail their unregulated sales.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • But the bloodshed that unfolded March 6-10 in Latakia and Tartous represents a frightening escalation.
    Chris Massaro, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Representative Mike Lawler of New York, who has hinted at ambitions for a governor bid in 2026, according to the New York Post, will need to walk a fine line between appeasing his party and not upsetting potential voters in his home state, which could put him at odds with Republicans.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • These weeds require control to prevent upsetting the entire turf ecosystem.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2025

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“Troubling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/troubling. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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