serious problem

collocation in English

meanings of seriousand problem

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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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Examples of serious problem

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I come now to what is perhaps a more seriousproblem from a philosophical perspective.
A potentially more seriousproblem is that changes in perceptions of corruption may lag reality, if they have anything to do with reality at all.
There are many reasons for the lack of policy coordination, but the doctrine of non-interference is the most seriousproblem.
Furthermore, collinearity diagnostics, estimated correlation, and covariance matrices revealed that multicollinearity is not a very seriousproblem among the tested variables.
This would not be a seriousproblem if the exposition of the material lent itself easily to a structured explanation.
Given the centrality of worship to theism, we took this result to be a seriousproblem for theism.
This however is not a seriousproblem, since most of the production of corn takes place in the semi-arid portion of the territory.
These, according to recent surveys, are becoming a seriousproblem in businesses that heavily rely on mediated communication.
Another seriousproblem is the ad hoc nature of land privatization.
Addiction in itself is not considered a seriousproblem unless it leads to crime and social deprivation.
So if unobservables pose a seriousproblem, how can we find some constructive way forward?
Once the documents themselves had been secured, the next seriousproblem was the edition itself.
This is a seriousproblem which deserves to be resolved without delay following the war.
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.
A more seriousproblem with the dance metaphor is that it takes on a magical, poetical quality.
Currently, the use of scientific information in medicine runs into a seriousproblem related to the "explosion" of biomedical information.
There is, however, a potentially more seriousproblem with the adjunction analysis of head movement.
Page correctly identifies this as a seriousproblem.
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