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besiege

verb as in bother

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But from the beginning, the team he assembled has been besieged by a series of internal disputes.

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El-Fasher is the last army foothold in the vast western region of Darfur, and has been besieged by the RSF and its allies for 18 months.

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It’s not just a matter of gathering a bunch of bickering survivors inside a besieged location — here it’s a converted Bushwick warehouse — while the outside world goes to hell.

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In the topsy-turvy world of a power grid besieged by exploding demands from artificial-intelligence data centers, the economics are tilting toward geothermal.

Hamas closed off access around the hospital and besieged the neighborhood with forces that greatly outnumbered the family’s fighters.

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

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