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Sleepless nights still afflict Maria occasionally but box breathing is something she knows can help her deal with periods that might feel overwhelming.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The cost of common conditions that afflict retirees — from chronic illness to cardiovascular disease to cognitive decline — can deplete your savings with alarming speed.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

So why not expect a similar awful fate to afflict China as the aftershocks of its 2020 real-estate crash reverberate?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Gross hallucinations — or are they? — will afflict them through the series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Ortega brings the right wide-eyed wonder to this kindly android that just wants to be Josie’s pal, having no idea about a secret medical condition that afflicts Josie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

There’s also a reference to septicemia, which is writer-director Emerald Fennell’s perhaps too-technical stab at explaining the nonspecific Victorian disease that afflicts one character.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

But if Ireland’s radically asymmetrical relationship with the U.S. is distinctive, the crisis it represents is global and afflicts many other small and medium-size nations.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025

An unusual autumn heat wave afflicts California, with elevated fire concerns that on Monday prompted some power shutoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

People say he’s angry, and hermitlike, but it's loneliness that afflicts him.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Supporters say the proposed funding could give those afflicted with chronic illness hope and potentially more options for treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Despite its long deployment, the Lincoln avoided some of the accidents that have afflicted other carriers on recent deployments, including during Operation Epic Fury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Throughout this year, the entire country seems to have been afflicted with the weather-app blues.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Even before the incident with Verstappen, Russell was afflicted on his final run by a water leak, which was spraying water on to his rear tyres.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Belt-tightening afflicting millions of households is having an impact, she noted.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

A return to industrial musicals in the age of A.I. didn’t strike me as a solution for all the woes afflicting the performing arts, from pricey tickets to the increasingly blatant corporatization of the arts.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

In 2005, Boeing agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that pollutants from the hilltop lab were responsible for range of cancers, auto-immune disorders and tumors afflicting nearby residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Their case is helped by the crisis afflicting Dundee University and evidence that much of further education is heading deep into the red and facing possible closures.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

We are still beset by plain diseases, and we do not control them; they are loose on their own, afflicting us unpredictably and haphazardly.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas