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The cost of common conditions that afflict retirees — from chronic illness to cardiovascular disease to cognitive decline — can deplete your savings with alarming speed.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

The “true failures” that afflict the city “are choices made in the city of L.A.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

However distanced you may feel from these effects, it’s worth pointing out that historically, what happens to Black workers comes to afflict all of America.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025

But this is not the sort of series that will leave evil unpunished or afflict the good with senseless tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Tremors are a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease, which also notably afflicts “Back to the Future” star Michael J. Fox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Or is Juneteenth a celebration of the strength and excellence that both grew out of the great evil that slavery represented and in spite of it, an evil that still afflicts the nation in 2026?

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

This isn’t unique to religion—it afflicts any organization that produces collective goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

To get coverage they need support, and to get support they need coverage - the vicious circle that afflicts all but the two main parties in Westminster.

From BBC ● May 31, 2024

People say he’s angry, and hermitlike, but it's loneliness that afflicts him.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Several European nations have been afflicted by wildfires this summer during a succession of heatwaves.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

But as one POW’s descendant told Mike Cherney, it’s also the best hope yet to close a wound that has afflicted his family for three generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

"I don't know of any other center in the world that trains exorcists," Syquia said of the two-storey facility built largely with donations from local families of the previously afflicted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

Some of us are afflicted with longer memories of Broadway’s best than the instant sensation TikTok generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Together, the three of us collected the shirts and breeches from such as were afflicted with sickness, all lying together in the stern.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

He explains how he believes Alcaraz’s tragic death likely came to be and how officers have become desensitized to issues afflicting America’s prisons.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

That has driven down costs but also pushed some companies to the brink in another instance of the hypercompetition sometimes blamed for afflicting China’s economic health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

What follows are the factors afflicting each region or market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

I would argue that the parallel still holds, in that the fundamental crisis of democracy afflicting both countries is strikingly similar.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

Despite the tragedy afflicting me, despite not feeling well, I let out a laugh.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel