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plaguing

adjective as in teasing

adjective as in torturous

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That’s less flow sweeping through concrete canals, carrying garbage and other undesirables to plague the beaches of Southern California.

For these members of Congress, the gun debate is personal Long lines and delayed results again plague coronavirus tests as Thanksgiving approaches

Yersinia pestis, the germ that causes plague, tamps down the early immune response, so that infected people can travel and spread infection for days before they feel sick.

If you’re looking for something beyond documentaries, try “Blood Quantum,” a Canadian zombie apocalypse film where only the Indigenous are immune to the plague.

It’s fair to say that the Renaissance followed the plague, the good follows the bad.

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The big twist is that by requesting those documents, Hall did in fact uncover a nepotism problem plaguing UT admissions.

This problem, one of many plaguing the region due to Ebola, gets exponentially worse with every new victim.

By 1910, when Broussard introduced his bill, the flowers had been plaguing his state for at least a decade.

Caleb makes clear that those plaguing him are honest-to-god metaphysical beings and not traumatic figments.

The threat of a future mass uprising won't disappear until the larger issues plaguing the Palestinians do.

Are you bent on plaguing me, Matilda, or is it that you truly believe I am seeking some pretense to go away under a false flag?

The priest goes on talking about it, and plaguing him with it, when he wants to forget it.

I was opposed to your perpetually plaguing the child, and also to the endless jumping from one thing to another.

Here's my wife gets no sleep of a night as it is, all owing to that Varney, who has been plaguing us so long.

I am very easy here, nobody plaguing me in a morning; and Patrick saves many a score lies.

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On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to plaguing, such as: aggravating, annoying, bitter, exasperating, harassing, and humiliating.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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