beset
Example Sentences
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Peru has been beset by political crises in recent years.
From BBC
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has approved 38 novel drugs so far this year, despite the chaos that has beset the agency.
Others like the Tenderloin, which is adjacent to the shuttered Whole Foods, are beset by drug dealing and homelessness.
From New York Times
“In a warming world, and in an era beset with supply chain disruption, Liberica coffee could re-emerge as a major crop plant,” they wrote in the Nature, the scientific journal, this past December.
From New York Times
The latter is beset by fraying social bonds and other ills.
From New York Times
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