afflicted

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This partly explains, Cembalest writes, the deindustrialization that has afflicted its economy so debilitatingly in the last few years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

The squad has also been afflicted by a sickness bug, which dramatically revealed itself in the quarter-final when Nathan MacKinnon threw up while sat on the bench.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Random abdominal pains have afflicted me since college — the price of a stressful job, I always figured.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

You’re no less afflicted if you’re a supporter who feels threatened when somebody says something negative about him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Pomp, who suffered the sickness as a child, circulates with me among the afflicted, bathing them comfortably and urging them to resist scratching and worrying at the sores, lest they rupture.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson