beset
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Bass’ summer has been beset by a string of negative news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The results included $280 million in losses on the VC-25B program for the presidential plane, Air Force One, which has been beset by delays and cost overruns.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
In recent years it has been beset with problems, with an inspection concluding last year that 44% of prisoners felt unsafe, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The monument had long been beset by structural failures and leaks, and Trump has championed the project as part of his bid to beautify the capital city.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I have been beset of late by troubling dreams. I worry about you when you are gone.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
A similar problem besets Georgia's On Replay – a generic club track with a tra-la-la chorus.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
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
The logistical confusion that sometimes besets the narrative, splintering outward even as it barrels toward its grim conclusion, is matched by creeping undercurrents of doubt and anxiety at every turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 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
It must be borne well in mind how different the problem then was from that which now besets the monetary world.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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
As the small industry grappled to find new technology, it also blamed regulators for besetting it with rules the new companies evaded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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