afflicted
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Afflicted female salmon that return to rivers and streams to spawn can pass the deficiency on to their hatchlings, which have problems swimming and experience high mortality rates.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
Afflicted vendors included big players such as Apple, which is still owed more than half of the $661,000 invoiced since July, UW officials say.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2023
Afflicted plants should be dug out and destroyed.
From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021
Afflicted by hyperemesis, or acute morning sickness, Schumer braced against unrelenting nausea and a good thousand or so hurls, many of them filmed by her husband, sister or friends.
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2020
Afflicted in body and soul, Swift suddenly quitted Pope, with whom he was residing at Twickenham, and reaching his home, was doomed to find his Stella upon the verge of the grave.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
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