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Discover LudwigThe phrase "troubling statistic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a number or statistic that is worrisome or distressing. For example: "The recent unemployment rate of 8.2% was a troubling statistic for the nation."
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On Tuesday, their deaths became part of a larger, troubling statistic.
This troubling statistic can't be written off as diagnostic shifting.
But these people were killed by knives, contributing to a troubling statistic in homicides.
Among all the positive news, however, was one deeply troubling statistic.
There's a troubling statistic in the United States when it comes to strokes.
The other troubling statistic for Berdych was his low first serve percentage.
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Going into this semifinal, Seles had never defeated Williams, who found that statistic troubling.
Should investors be troubled by an under-the-radar statistic on corporate debt?
The trouble with this statistic is that America has lots of sources of R&D spending: federal money accounted for only $86 billion of the $288 billion that it spent on R&D in 2004.
My husband is an immigrant from Moldova, so that statistic troubles me.
Amy Winehouse has become another statistic in a long list of music-business celebrities with serious underlying problems, despite the so-called "success" of their short-lived and troubled careers.
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