How to Use have a problem with in a Sentence

have a problem with

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  • The Suns have a problem with the way things are setting in the West.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Hitters who played with the clock in the minors this year did not seem to have a problem with it.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Seattle’s defense had stiffened over the team’s last three games and shouldn’t have a problem with the Raiders at home.
    David Hill, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Ramirez seemed to have a problem with Anderson’s tag, and the two players put up their dukes.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Your gift giver appears not to have a problem with the bully.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • One man who doesn’t have a problem with that, though, is Warren Buffett.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Saban doesn’t have a problem with adding an extra SEC game in 2024.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Whittingham didn’t have a problem with how that part played out.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • There's one more thing that students have a problem with lately—going to class.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
  • No one seems to have a problem with the way Instagram flooded Threads to get those record signup numbers.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • For an artwork to appear in the Museu de l’Art Prohibit, someone has to have a problem with it.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Officers appear to have a problem with the first dose of Narcan and are heard asking for a second.
    Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The Bey Hive did not have a problem with one of the many surprises Beyoncé had for them at her birthday show.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Congress and President Biden have a problem with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling.
    Greg Ip, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • Harris steps up her engagement:Democrats have a problem with Black male voters.
    Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • America doesn’t just have a problem with a lack of teachers and a lack of teacher diversity.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Nobody will have a problem with Plokhy’s reading of the war as one of national liberation for Ukraine.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Others have a problem with gendering any way of eating.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 July 2023
  • There are those, among them some conservative Latter-day Saints, who have a problem with that message and the way it’s delivered.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • If parents have a problem with your intervention in that regard – too bad.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Black male voters: Democrats have a problem with this population.
    Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Does the subordinate have a problem with holding the retreat in their common meeting spaces?
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • In the meantime, Stefanski didn’t have a problem with York getting testy with a reporter during his postgame interview in the locker room.
    cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The likes of Matt Gaetz believe that Republicans have a problem with the quality of their leadership when the quality of the followership is more the issue.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But the lander may have a problem with its solar power panels, and appears to be operating only on batteries for the moment.
    TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
  • This ingenious novel is a twisted story of malevolent puppets and dolls that have a problem with real estate deals.
    Carol Memmott, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Sheehan said that, even if the screening doesn’t catch someone with a gambling addiction, the judge who is overseeing the person’s case can refer the person to the program at any time if the judge believes the person may have a problem with gambling.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
  • However, Lenky doesn’t have a problem with the ever-changing sound, and subgenres spawned in recent years, like tropical house or reggae fusion.
    J'na Jefferson, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One of the big themes coming out of the 2020 election was that Democrats were going to have a problem with Latino voters in the future, concentrated especially among Latino men without college degrees.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Other wildly popular videos include rebuffs of former bosses as well as colleagues who have a problem with her fabulous wardrobe.
    Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022

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