bedeviled
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Russia seized the islands from Japan in the dying days of World War II and a dispute over their sovereignty has bedeviled relations between Moscow and Tokyo ever since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
No one is predicting the same type that bedeviled the economy during the 1970s, but the signs of a problem are there all the same.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 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
A cascade of work flowed to their firm, partly because Root managed to solve a puzzle that had bedeviled Chicago builders ever since the city’s founding.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
