setback in the PONS Dictionary

setback Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to experience a setback
to suffer a setback ECON
to suffer a setback ECON

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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Setbacks in a series of promising drug treatments have proven frustrating.
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If a final ruling is ever reached enforcing the setback, the addition's encroachment would need demolition and removal.
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There, he pretends to examine her but subsequently asks about her project, to which she responds angrily, ranting about the setbacks in her work.
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The man must master his feelings in general and especially his feelings of pain and setbacks.
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The district has innovative features such as large front yard setbacks, lots wide, underground utilities, and no alleys.
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The distinctive setbacks begin at the 43rd floor.
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Despite some recent setbacks due to the political turmoil in the state and the consequent law and order situation, the school continues to pioneer.
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Despite the setbacks he approached some more publishers.
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But his career has not been without its setbacks, off-field problems forcing him out of the squad at times.
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It has three segmented tower setbacks, each with a steeply pitched gabled roofline that is topped off with spires.
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