affliction

Vocelle finds criticism that cat dads are seen as feminine, neurotic or less desirable as a relatively modern and unfounded affliction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

And for people who use their voices frequently, there’s laryngeal dystonia—an affliction also suffered by radio host Diane Rehm.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

Olay launched a face-and-neck-lifting treatment earlier this year and is marketing the product partly as a solution to the affliction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

“We cannot wait to see what you are capable of without the affliction of your flawed past.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

If Resurrection Church is famed in Catholic and activist circles across Southern California, it’s because parishioners over the decades have had to deal with afflictions on the level of Job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

Now that they are defanged, these countries’ remaining afflictions don’t threaten Americans or occupy the attention of senior U.S. national security officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

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

Traders and procurers from up and down the coast converged on Charleston, checking the merchandises eyes and joints and spines, wary of venereal distemper and other afflictions.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead