affliction

I fear we are turning out the most confused generation, with an affliction of contradiction.

“Poor Fredrick! It was never my desire to pass my affliction on to him. But thanks to this volume, his suffering will soon be over.”

Meanwell did what he does best—find the next big thing in medicine by looking for the biggest afflictions facing the most patients.

On Tuesday night, he promised to “work across party lines to find a national solution to the age-old plague of gerrymandering, and in particular, to the more recent affliction of mid-decade gerrymandering.”

The duck is as well-known in Japan, where Aflac now does most of its business, anxieties over cancer and other afflictions running more deeply there than in the U.S.