affliction

In 2005, Florida first got signs of a new affliction in its groves called citrus greening disease.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Beyond entertainment, Shepard devoted herself to raising awareness for sickle cell anemia after a friend died of the affliction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

But lately, it is drawing attention for those drugs’ success at clearing a more familiar affliction: acne.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

For Belichick, they say, it's part love of the game, part love for coaching, and part an affliction that has ailed many great sports figures: an inability to know when to say goodbye.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

Olmsted returned to Chicago accompanied by his usual troika of affliction and found the place galvanized, Burnham everywhere at once.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

It joins a family of facial afflictions that also includes “necklace lines,” “Crows’ feet” and “elevens”—the wrinkles between the eyebrows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

During a 2015 talk, Erikson called Katrina “far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience,” whose long-lasting consequences revealed all manner of societal afflictions: mismanagement of infrastructure, political corruption, inequality, racism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Francis has spoken openly about her personal afflictions over the course of her career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

But to experience divine visions through the mortal body came at great physical cost, often in the form of seizures, migraines and other afflictions.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024

In spite of time, of the superimposed periods of mourning, and her accumulated afflictions, Úrsula resisted growing old.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez