bedevil

Could they ever, in some future utopia, substitute for war, economic competition and the other conflicts that bedevil human life?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Such are the occasional aggravations and annoyances that bedevil the tony section of Los Angeles that Harris calls home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

The film also retains surprising relevance today, as it explores a range of issues that continue to bedevil contemporary India.

From BBC ● May 17, 2024

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

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024

I continued to bedevil the Law Society and registrar with demands, which they continued to deflect.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The problem is one that bedevils investors every time they pile into fashionable trades: other investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

But those projects can be far from its data centers, a mismatch between supply and demand that bedevils the fractured and aging U.S. power grid.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

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

Superconductor-based computing systems, where electrical resistance in the switches and wires falls to zero, might solve the cooling challenge that increasingly bedevils the world’s data centers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 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

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

Especially moving in “Neptune’s Fortune” is the insight and empathy Mr. Sancton brings to his consideration of the book’s bedeviled but oddly gallant protagonist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

It is a piece of information that has bedeviled me since I read it 10 years ago, as I could never quite figure out where and how it fit into the timing of events.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025

Buying the stock means believing that Fermi can overcome hurdles that have bedeviled better-established infrastructure companies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2025

The old man who had called the police was the same one whom we had constantly bedeviled as we snatched transfer pads earlier that week.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

However, securing the benefits of a relationship while navigating the associated risks is the hard task that has bedevilled governments.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025

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

Toshiba, which has been bedevilled by accounting and governance crises since 2015, set up a special committee in April to solicit proposals after shareholders voted down a management-backed restructuring plan.

From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2022

"And it is true, too—too true; they are all bedevilled," sez he, gloomily eyin' the bill.

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

High-pressure tactics, official-sounding messages and other tricks are potentially bedeviling taxpayers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

The em dash is already quite accustomed to controversy, with a long history of charming and bedeviling authors, journalists and academics.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

In less than two years the world was rid of most of what had been bedeviling it.

From And All the Earth a Grave by C. C. MacApp

The whole affair became a test case for Pope Francis's aim of clearing up the Vatican's finances, which were long plagued by scandal, bedevilling the papacy of Francis's predecessor, Benedict XVI.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023

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

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

What on earth could be wrong with me, I asked myself, that I should be bedevilling  my students in this fashion?

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various