beset
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The containers, which will be housing around 2,000 of the guests and are designed to be reused as disaster evacuation facilities, have been beset by complaints.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
But it had been beset by corruption allegations and was on the brink of insolvency.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
But Broadcom, which reports results later today, is also beset with competitive and technical challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
Deacon Hurd, beset, with financial woe, was no longer preaching.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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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
A common trouble besets them all: the limiting authority is placed in external and arbitrary juxtaposition to the personal initiative which it professes to support.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
Both mother and daughter reflect on the troubles besetting their own family, as the mother tries to write a novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
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
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
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