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"the difficult is" is not a correct or common phrase in written English.
A more common and correct way to express this idea would be "the difficulty is." You can use this phrase to introduce a challenging or complex aspect of something. For example: "The difficulty is not in understanding the concept, but in putting it into practice."
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He taught us that the difficult is often easy, but the easy can be really hard".
The difficult is that the boy's father has illegally brought the clone into the United States, and the government has seized it.
"The difficult is that the blockade issue is closely aligned with the political demands being made by Hamas, and the political and security demands being made by Israel".
A skilled diplomat in negotiations with North Korea and the talks that ended fighting in Bosnia, Mr. Hill called Iraq his most formidable challenge, where "the easy is difficult, the difficult is pretty near impossible".
The difficult is that people aren't stupid.
The same basic idea is known in New Testament philology as the proclivi scriptioni praestat ardua principle ("The difficult is to be preferred to the easy reading") [16].
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How difficult is the job?
Especially difficult is the taxation issue.
How difficult is the Olympic Club today?
How difficult is the album naming process?
What's difficult is combining the two".
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