serious problem
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandproblem
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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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 ...
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(Definition ofseriousandproblemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofserious problem
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I come now to what is perhaps a moreseriousproblemfrom a philosophical perspective.
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A potentially moreseriousproblemis 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 mostseriousproblem.
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Furthermore, collinearity diagnostics, estimated correlation, and covariance matrices revealed that multicollinearity is not a veryseriousproblemamong the tested variables.
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This would not be aseriousproblemif 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 aseriousproblemfor theism.
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This however is not aseriousproblem, 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 aseriousproblemin businesses that heavily rely on mediated communication.
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Anotherseriousproblemis the ad hoc nature of land privatization.
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Addiction in itself is not considered aseriousproblemunless it leads to crime and social deprivation.
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So if unobservables pose aseriousproblem, how can we find some constructive way forward?
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Once the documents themselves had been secured, the nextseriousproblemwas the edition itself.
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This is aseriousproblemwhich 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 aseriousproblem for working out the relationships among these languages.
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A moreseriousproblemwith 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 aseriousproblemrelated to the "explosion" of biomedical information.
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There is, however, a potentially moreseriousproblemwith the adjunction analysis of head movement.
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Page correctly identifies this as aseriousproblem.
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