beset

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The cost, while small, felt like what one worker described as the “cherry on top” of a demoralizing work culture beset by layoffs and overwhelming workloads.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

World champion Norris has been beset by reliability problems this weekend, losing much of second practice to a hydraulic failure and half of final practice with another battery failure.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

“Corporations are beset by the same harmful tendencies as investors. When they are at their peak, they reach for the sun,” wrote Victor Niederhoffer in his book “Practical Speculation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The S&P 500, beset with uncertainties about the Middle East and investors’ newfound doubts about artificial intelligence, has gained just 0.7% over that time.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

An anxiety at what was real and what was display beset us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson