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Experts say those dynamics are likely to bedevil the government’s ambitious plans for a march on Sanaa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

As suspicions bedevil him—has he been duped into this marriage?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

"The systemic frictions that bedevil the US-China trade relationship will not be solved any time soon," Mr Olson adds.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

Diseases like Alzheimer's, strokes and other cognitive impairments continue to bedevil doctors seeking a cure.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024

Then he spat river water all over her skirt and she knew he lived to bedevil her again.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

That makes romance vulnerable to the same problem that bedevils almost every economic transaction: imperfect information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

It is a problem that Sullivan admits bedevils him to this day, although he also notes that CPAPs have evolved over the years to become much more comfortable than during his 1980 experiment.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2023

As for the play, much still bedevils it.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2023

This underscores that public safety — repeatedly cited as Seattleites’ greatest civic concern — is not a hopeless morass that bedevils concerted efforts to tackle.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

I don’t claim that Powell had it all figured out: American history bedevils the most earnest attempts to make sense of it.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

But if you are an AI company about to launch an IPO, you say that very soon you will cure cancers, produce music only angels have heard, solve equations that have bedeviled mankind for millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Homeless encampments, piles of trash, vermin, and car break-ins have bedeviled the 4000 block of Babcock Avenue in Studio City since the property was abandoned, said neighbor Clint Ledsworth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The U.S. and Iran are locked in a diplomatic stalemate over issues that have bedeviled the two sides for years, as the conflict settles into a gray zone that is neither war nor peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

When Paul and Gaz confront Dee, Taylor’s response is so cowardly that it’s pathetic, suggesting a spinelessness that bedeviled him long before he wound up in jail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

To them, any bird of prey must be harassed, but goshawks must be unmercifully bedeviled.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Sir Wyn says three of the compensation schemes have been "bedevilled with unjustifiable delays" and redress has not been delivered promptly.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

The financial hit incurred from the industrial action, confirmed to Reuters by a third source inside the company, follows a record loss in 2022 when the utility was bedevilled by reactor outages.

From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2023

Or, thanks to streaming services, we can keep the same six or seven albums from 2001-2009 on repeat for the rest of our crisis bedevilled lives.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

“Progress in arms control is also bedevilled by Newton’s Law,” he wrote in a 1987 essay.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

Ellis said, after a silence: "That gambling outfit from the West has bedevilled one or two good citizens in Gotham town."

From The Danger Mark by A. B. Wenzell

"But they will soon be bumping against the external problems that are bedeviling the industry."

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

Some problems Smucker is facing are bedeviling other food makers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Mateo represents a paradox bedeviling the U.S. nursing landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

Not surprisingly, their questions were the same ones bedeviling the rest of us.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024

Bud was oblivious, for he had come into Bennett's Woods to try to solve the problems that were bedeviling him.

From The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard

Those updates should shrink the error bars on the telescope’s calibrations from the tens of percentage points that have been bedevilling astronomers in some areas, down to just a few percentage points.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2022

But the supply-chain snarl-ups, container traffic jams and chip shortages bedevilling companies worldwide show no signs of going away any time soon.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2021

The most recent strain bedevilling the EU arrived via Georgia in 2007.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019

Zuckerberg is hoping to erect a scalable system, an orderly decision tree that accounts for every eventuality and exception, but the boundaries of speech are a bedevilling problem that defies mechanistic fixes.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018

I think he had it in for Ferdy, for Ferdy had been bedevilling him about the place.

From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page