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In McDonnell, his supporters say, the mayor has an honest and principled leader who has managed to steady a department beset by low morale, dwindling staffing levels and aging facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

But mindfulness can become tougher as you age, when you’re beset by physical and mental distractions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

His administration was also beset by a series of public health challenges, including a bird flu outbreak from 1997 to 2002 and the 2003 outbreak of Sars, also known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The company was beset by problems, most of them linked to Jobs’s perfectionism—which, let loose in a company that he now owned and controlled, was in danger of driving the entire enterprise into the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Deacon Hurd, beset, with financial woe, was no longer preaching.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

The accounts of ramming must also be seen through the panic that naturally besets humans when they encounter such enormous animals.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

Mr Vance credits that stability with his success in lifting himself out of the poverty that besets the Appalachians.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2021

The logistical confusion that sometimes besets the narrative, splintering outward even as it barrels toward its grim conclusion, is matched by creeping undercurrents of doubt and anxiety at every turn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2021

While armed conflict besets much of the country, Beileh’s ministry and al-Shabab now compete over the most basic function of governance: to collect revenue and provide services.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2019

He, with others, walked quietly on towards the landing-place, actuated by the curiosity as to new arrivals which generally besets occasional residents at the seaside.

From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull

Both mother and daughter reflect on the troubles besetting their own family, as the mother tries to write a novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

But even jaded readers will be startled by the scope of the self-organizing tyranny besetting the book world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

The findings suggest kids have been caught in the crossfire of simultaneous immigration and housing crises besetting the city.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

He also followed up on prior deals to provide arms and training to regional powers while adroitly sidestepping the deadly frictions currently besetting the Middle East.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens