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afflicting





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AI adoption isn’t just a problem afflicting one company, but nearly all of them, according to researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

From Los Angeles Times

Reducing the witches’ brew of tribal conflict, social disintegration, jihadist insurgency and religious violence afflicting that country to a charge of Christian genocide misses the complexity and scale of the horror.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many of the factors afflicting the California wine industry are also hurting winemakers in other parts of the world—and those winemakers have also been ripping out vines.

From The Wall Street Journal

The pattern is a sort of repetition compulsion, afflicting Democratic movers and shakers along with the party as an institution.

From Salon