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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

We see the brothers standing in the center, unharmed; the flames reaching out to afflict everyone around them; and the observers on high looking perplexed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

Among animals, too, epidemic diseases require large, dense populations and don’t afflict just any animal: they’re confined mainly to social animals providing the necessary large populations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

This isn’t unique to religion—it afflicts any organization that produces collective goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 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

In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% of childhood polio survivors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

To get coverage they need support, and to get support they need coverage - the vicious circle that afflicts all but the two main parties in Westminster.

From BBC ● May 31, 2024

It could certainly make sure that everyone had equal wealth—but that would just add to the plague of boredom that afflicts the immortal.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Verstappen and Hamilton were the first of a number of cars that were afflicted by a software issue that left them unable to do more than crawl along.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

They interviewed 191 afflicted people, and found that 177 reported eating at Mexican-style restaurants including Chipotle Mexican Grill and Qdoba before their illness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

"If it's 35 degrees outside, it's over 40 degrees inside," said the 65-year-old, complaining that ageing residents were being afflicted with increasing headaches.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Beneath him the floor still seemed to list, then switch to the rhythm of a steady march, and once again Turner found himself too afflicted by impressions, too fevered, too exhausted to sleep.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Moreover, they are a nuisance in dense urban neighborhoods, afflicting residents with the omnipresent hum of compressors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

What follows are the factors afflicting each region or market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Tijuana’s greatest tourist attraction was its racetrack, which benefited from the hard times afflicting the racing industry in the United States.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand