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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 dark comedy about a New England island beset by supernatural terrors is both exceedingly clever and genuinely terrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

In the mid-1980s, Hanoi was beset by hyperinflation and food shortages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

This avian bystander may have recognized a fellow bird of prey in Coriolanus, whose role in the Roman ecosystem is necessary yet not fit for all purposes in a young democracy beset with growing pains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Established by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the League was beset with problems from the beginning.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

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

The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The mood among German consumers continues to darken as the pressures besetting Europe’s largest economy take their toll on sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2025

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

Another foe besetting both Ukrainian and Russian forces is a more elemental force — the mud that follows winter’s end, transforming wide swaths of the front line into swamps of brown ooze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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