affliction
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Papatiti fears that the death toll is being underestimated and that the affliction may also be affecting elephants in neighbouring Tanzania.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
But he is far from the first to suffer from this affliction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In 2005, Florida first got signs of a new affliction in its groves called citrus greening disease.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
For Belichick, they say, it's part love of the game, part love for coaching, and part an affliction that has ailed many great sports figures: an inability to know when to say goodbye.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Aureliano, of course, understood that his brother’s affliction did not have its source in the search for the philosopher’s stone, but he could not get into his confidence.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It joins a family of facial afflictions that also includes “necklace lines,” “Crows’ feet” and “elevens”—the wrinkles between the eyebrows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Meanwell did what he does best—find the next big thing in medicine by looking for the biggest afflictions facing the most patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
But to experience divine visions through the mortal body came at great physical cost, often in the form of seizures, migraines and other afflictions.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
He said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books last April that writing his memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” helped in his recovery from his various afflictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Vocabulary lists containing affliction
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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