afflicted
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Indonesia is afflicted by wildfires regularly during its dry season, but this year the blazes have been turbocharged by a powerful El Nino cycle, which typically brings drought.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
He advocated for the creation of institutions, colloquially known as leper colonies, for those afflicted with perhaps the world’s most stigmatized disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Throughout this year, the entire country seems to have been afflicted with the weather-app blues.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Damasios are renowned brain researchers at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City and treat patients with the same kind of frontal lobe damage that afflicted Phineas.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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