afflict
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After rallying for most of the year, bitcoin and other digital tokens fall back—caught up in a broader decline afflicting riskier trades across all markets.
A hidden consequence of disasters, distinct from the traumas afflicting each person, was a shredding of “social life that damages the bonds attaching people together and impairs a prevailing sense of communality,” he wrote.
Through this, the filmmakers fulfill their aim of presenting a more complicated and fascinating version of the American story, showing that the ills afflicting us today were present from the very beginning.
From Salon
In the mountain villages near Medellín, Colombia, an extraordinary percentage of residents are afflicted with a version of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Bitcoin and other digital tokens have been caught up in a broader decline afflicting riskier trades across all markets.
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