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- noun Plural form of
trouble . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
trouble .
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Examples
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But the town knew worse troubles even than the floods, troubles of the civil wars, when it was a continual fighting-place, where first Puritans thanked God for the blood of the Loyalists, and then Loyalists thanked God for the blood of the Puritans.
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This effort to pluck George W. from his troubles is the latest episode in a recurrent drama -- from the drunken young man challenging his father to go "mano a mano" on the front lawn of the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to the father pulling strings to get the son into the Texas Air National Guard and helping salvage his finances from George W. 's mismanagement of Harken Energy.
June 2006 2006
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JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: The U.S. still mourns its dead from September 11th, northern Ireland spent years, of course, suffering from what it called the troubles, and there is Iraq, where the attacks are still almost daily.
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One of our troubles is a curious jealousy of success in commerce and industry which seems to pervade many who ought to know better.
Britain Today 1968
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You know, I think one of our troubles is a kind of question mark right there.
Leadership 1934
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Recent years have seen the group encounter some label troubles, abandoning
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Recent years have seen the group encounter some label troubles, abandoning
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Paisley, on the other hand, who has consistently condemned violence from both sides in the 'troubles', is a 'hard-liner'.
Archive 2004-11-28 Laban 2004
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Paisley, on the other hand, who has consistently condemned violence from both sides in the 'troubles', is a 'hard-liner'.
November 28, 2004 Laban 2004
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I see 1994 all over again, with the realignment occurring, state by state, as more and more people realize that the democractic Keynesian approach to addressing our ecoonomic troubles is a recipie for disaster.
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