beset
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But his lone term in office was beset by turmoil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Most importantly, the 29-year-old Alvarez played in a career-high 158 games, saving an Astros team that was beset by injuries all season long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
But mindfulness can become tougher as you age, when you’re beset by physical and mental distractions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
His administration was also beset by a series of public health challenges, including a bird flu outbreak from 1997 to 2002 and the 2003 outbreak of Sars, also known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The climate changes that beset Australia about 45,000 years ago destabilised the ecosystem and made it particularly vulnerable.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Researchers have now gained new insights into how that water pollution is creating air pollution that besets nearby communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
The accounts of ramming must also be seen through the panic that naturally besets humans when they encounter such enormous animals.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Mr Vance credits that stability with his success in lifting himself out of the poverty that besets the Appalachians.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2021
First, it emphasizes that even the MCU isn't free from the class conflict that besets the real world.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2019
She can talk on evolution; She can proffer a solution For each problem that besets the modern brain.
From A Word to Women by Mrs. C. E. Humphry
The report also addresses another fear besetting the market of late which is the funding concerns surrounding neoclouds.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
But even jaded readers will be startled by the scope of the self-organizing tyranny besetting the book world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
The findings suggest kids have been caught in the crossfire of simultaneous immigration and housing crises besetting the city.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
He also followed up on prior deals to provide arms and training to regional powers while adroitly sidestepping the deadly frictions currently besetting the Middle East.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
However, the difficulties besetting our task are so great that we cannot hope for more than tentative and incomplete answers.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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