Thesaurus / bedevil
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These issues bedeviled companies back in 2018, and new data shows continued gaps between the permissions people give companies to collect and use their data and what ad tech firms actually do.
AD TRACKERS CONTINUE TO COLLECT EUROPEANS’ DATA WITHOUT CONSENT UNDER THE GDPR, SAY AD DATA DETECTIVESKATE KAYEOCTOBER 4, 2021DIGIDAYFor more than a century, explorers who ventured into the highest mountains had been bedevilled by cases of “high altitude pneumonia,” in which young, vigorous men were struck down, often fatally, within days of arriving at altitude.
DEATH ON A MEDIUM-HIGH MOUNTAINMMIRHASHEMSEPTEMBER 17, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThe sharper protests against “toxic philanthropy” that have bedeviled the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art aren’t discussed.
NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ASKS GOOD QUESTIONS, BUT NOT ENOUGH TOUGH ONESPHILIP KENNICOTTMAY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA question that has long bedeviled bitcoin observers is how to value it.
BITCOIN IS WORTH WHATEVER ELON MUSK AND CATHIE WOOD SAY IT ISJOHN DETRIXHEFEBRUARY 24, 2021QUARTZWhat's become of that little boot-black that you used to bedevil?
GABRIEL CONROYBERT HARTEOf all the vegetables calculated to bedevil human beings, he decided, growing corn was the worst.
THE DUCK-FOOTED HOUNDJAMES ARTHUR KJELGAARDThis contract in a very few years arose to bedevil the railroad situation in the North Country.
THE STORY OF THE ROME, WATERTOWN, AND OGDENSBURG RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORDI've been listening to you trying to bedevil that man out there, but I'm afraid your humor is a little on the slap-stick order.
WIDE COURSESJAMES BRENDAN CONNOLLYThese miserable slaves and reptiles—mongrel Spaniards and mongrel Indians—can not very long bedevil that great country.
CONFESSIONW. GILMORE SIMMSWhich, by the same token, presently lost track of him entirely, and wandered off to find and bedevil some other poor devil.
THE BLACK BAGLOUIS JOSEPH VANCEWORDS RELATED TO BEDEVIL
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