bedevil

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

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

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

Their complexity bedevils the computer models that simulate how the climate could evolve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 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

To tackle such “lawful but awful” content that frequently bedevils content moderators, the EU will require extra scrutiny for the biggest online platforms - those with 45 million monthly users.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

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

That is what has bedeviled the $108 million Anderson estate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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

The challenge of basing a long novel on a villain appears to have bedeviled Mr. Mahajan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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

During one collaboration, he and Philip Abelson were bedeviled by the erratic performance of an ionization chamber until Abelson noticed that its behavior corresponded to Kamen’s wanderings around the room.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The project was mooted in the 1970s, but has been bedevilled by security threats, environmental concerns and a lack of funding.

From BBC ● May 15, 2022

But this glove, I say, may not have been that woman's, and if it was, she had not then bedevilled him.

From A Window in Thrums by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

Luckily, Scarlet comes up with a straightforward solution to everything that’s been bedeviling her: She simply declares an end to war, forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

Amigo, put yourself in the place of one of these caciques, with white men bedeviling you for a treasure which you never even troubled yourself to pick up when it lay about loose.

From Days of the Discoverers by Florence Choate

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

This roving caravan of marvels would be a logistical nightmare and a financial impossibility, but it would best express the ethos of the global museum, free of the bedevilling complications of place.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2015

By the merest chance, but very fortunately, he was prevented from bedevilling the Ducal Palace after the fire in 1576.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley