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Stay for ’90s heartthrob Josh Hartnett, who stars as a grizzled fisherman whose town is beset by a sea monster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

But it had been beset by corruption allegations and was on the brink of insolvency.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The moves come as Americans are beset by concerns about the housing market, including rising mortgage rates and a lack of affordability.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Infantino will hope that this begins to draw a line under the latest, and perhaps biggest, controversy that has beset his 10-year tenure.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

He would call and apologize; he was beset by a host of problems, some of which he mentioned, and some of which I heard from other people.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

While armed conflict besets much of the country, Beileh’s ministry and al-Shabab now compete over the most basic function of governance: to collect revenue and provide services.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2019

Greater hazard besets us now, Don Luis, than hath befallen us since we left Palos.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper

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

In a sign of the troubles besetting the industry, one large almond-growing conglomerate has declared bankruptcy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

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

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