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Sleepless nights still afflict Maria occasionally but box breathing is something she knows can help her deal with periods that might feel overwhelming.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

So why not expect a similar awful fate to afflict China as the aftershocks of its 2020 real-estate crash reverberate?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Gross hallucinations — or are they? — will afflict them through the series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

My questions found no answers, and my thoughts continued to torment me until I feared that madness was beguming to afflict my brain.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Or is Juneteenth a celebration of the strength and excellence that both grew out of the great evil that slavery represented and in spite of it, an evil that still afflicts the nation in 2026?

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

There are currently no approved drugs that can slow progression of the brutal neuro-degenerative disease, which afflicts about 40,000 Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

An unusual autumn heat wave afflicts California, with elevated fire concerns that on Monday prompted some power shutoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

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

Throughout this year, the entire country seems to have been afflicted with the weather-app blues.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

"If it's 35 degrees outside, it's over 40 degrees inside," said the 65-year-old, complaining that ageing residents were being afflicted with increasing headaches.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

But as one POW’s descendant told Mike Cherney, it’s also the best hope yet to close a wound that has afflicted his family for three generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

While Russell has floundered a little, less comfortable with the car, and is still afflicted by bad luck, pace seems to flow from Antonelli so easily.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

To his and Odile’s dismay, their companions were college dons contentedly talking about the burdensome administrative problems with which they were so sadly afflicted.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

He explains how he believes Alcaraz’s tragic death likely came to be and how officers have become desensitized to issues afflicting America’s prisons.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

In 2005, Boeing agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that pollutants from the hilltop lab were responsible for range of cancers, auto-immune disorders and tumors afflicting nearby residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

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

Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis