afflicts

Example Sentences

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This isn’t unique to religion—it afflicts any organization that produces collective goods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 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

This language disorder afflicts more than 1 in 300 Americans each year, including Wendy Williams and Bruce Willis.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

Though burnout afflicts workers in all professions, a Gallup poll in 2022 found that it hits teachers the hardest.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2024

People say he’s angry, and hermitlike, but it's loneliness that afflicts him.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry