afflicted

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AI-generated errors have afflicted customer service operations at some companies and have caused doctors and lawyers no end of grief, affecting their services to patients and clients.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

This partly explains, Cembalest writes, the deindustrialization that has afflicted its economy so debilitatingly in the last few years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

The West African country has long been afflicted by civil war, foreign military interventions, and Islamist insurgencies.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

He was probably afflicted by epilepsy, a condition that usually went unnamed to avoid public shame.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Beneath him the floor still seemed to list, then switch to the rhythm of a steady march, and once again Turner found himself too afflicted by impressions, too fevered, too exhausted to sleep.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan