- present participle of afflict.
afflicting
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Nieto has a plan if he identifies screwworm afflicting cattle on his southern Texas ranch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
What follows are the factors afflicting each region or market.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026
Their bread-and-butter is comforting the most comfortable by afflicting the most afflicted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
Their case is helped by the crisis afflicting Dundee University and evidence that much of further education is heading deep into the red and facing possible closures.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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