affliction

Example Sentences

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But lately, it is drawing attention for those drugs’ success at clearing a more familiar affliction: acne.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 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

The inability to comprehend the significance of big numbers is a human affliction.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

Perhaps the most grotesque episode features the boys salvaging their grandmother’s hot tub, promising Dad they’ll keep it clean and then contracting some kind of gruesome, racking bronchial affliction that coughs up another moral.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Wherever they went, they were offered baptism, and some in their affliction converted and stayed behind, but very few.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar