afflict
Example Sentences
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AI adoption isn’t just a problem afflicting one company, but nearly all of them, according to researchers.
We see the brothers standing in the center, unharmed; the flames reaching out to afflict everyone around them; and the observers on high looking perplexed.
Close behind with eight each were director Thomas Kail’s “Sweeney Todd” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” the tenderhearted tale of a New Jersey teenager afflicted with a disease that ages her four times as fast as normal.
From Washington Post
She doesn’t feel untouchable; she feels like a friend, and those afflicted by their own lonely tales of relationship-related blunders know she’s rooting for them as much as they’re rooting for her.
From Washington Post
It has always been a constellation of very different neighborhoods, some of which have very few of the social ills that afflict the area near the closed Whole Foods.
From New York Times
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