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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

However distanced you may feel from these effects, it’s worth pointing out that historically, what happens to Black workers comes to afflict all of America.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025

These hot, dry, east-to-west winds caused by a high-pressure system are typical of the Santa Ana winds, which can afflict Southern California more than a dozen times per year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

I sometimes wonder which of these will afflict me, later; because I know one of them will.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Tremors are a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease, which also notably afflicts “Back to the Future” star Michael J. Fox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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

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

Now the elms are stricken with a disease that afflicts them throughout their range, a disease so serious that many experts believe all efforts to save the elms will in the end be futile.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Defence counsel Ian Duguid KC said Manners was currently getting antipsychotic medication and told the court: "Whatever personality disorder he is afflicted with it is not one that affects his responsibility for the crime."

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Antonelli took pole in China despite the same front wing problem as afflicted Russell.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

The United States said it would not allow anyone afflicted with the virus to enter the country.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

“May this persecution, like the thorns that afflicted Paul, sharpen our courage and make our faith as solid as a rock.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Farmers using arsenic dusts over long periods have been afflicted with chronic arsenic poisoning; livestock have been poisoned by crop sprays or weed killers containing arsenic.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

What follows are the factors afflicting each region or market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 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

Through this, the filmmakers fulfill their aim of presenting a more complicated and fascinating version of the American story, showing that the ills afflicting us today were present from the very beginning.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025

Outbreaks of measles, diphtheria and severe diarrhea are afflicting more children and taking place more frequently because of a drop in vaccinations, health officials in Somalia’s southwest state said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

She told me how a strange plague once broke out, afflicting hundreds, Gertrude among them, and how she nursed the queen from the very brink of death to complete health again.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein