serious problem
collocation in Englishmeanings of serious and problem
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problem
noun [C]
uk/ˈprɒb.ləm/us/ˈprɑː.bləm/
a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with ...
(Definition of serious and problem from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of serious problem
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I come now to what is perhaps a more serious problem from a philosophical perspective.
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A potentially more serious problem is that changes in perceptions of corruption may lag reality, if they have anything to do with reality at all.
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There are many reasons for the lack of policy coordination, but the doctrine of non-interference is the most serious problem.
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Furthermore, collinearity diagnostics, estimated correlation, and covariance matrices revealed that multicollinearity is not a very serious problem among the tested variables.
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This would not be a serious problem if the exposition of the material lent itself easily to a structured explanation.
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Given the centrality of worship to theism, we took this result to be a serious problem for theism.
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This however is not a serious problem, since most of the production of corn takes place in the semi-arid portion of the territory.
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These, according to recent surveys, are becoming a serious problem in businesses that heavily rely on mediated communication.
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Another serious problem is the ad hoc nature of land privatization.
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Addiction in itself is not considered a serious problem unless it leads to crime and social deprivation.
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So if unobservables pose a serious problem, how can we find some constructive way forward?
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Once the documents themselves had been secured, the next serious problem was the edition itself.
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This is a serious problem which deserves to be resolved without delay following the war.
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As is clear from the history of linguistics, this superficial similarity has not been a serious problem for working out the relationships among these languages.
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A more serious problem with the dance metaphor is that it takes on a magical, poetical quality.
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Currently, the use of scientific information in medicine runs into a serious problem related to the "explosion" of biomedical information.
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There is, however, a potentially more serious problem with the adjunction analysis of head movement.
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Page correctly identifies this as a serious problem.
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