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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

However distanced you may feel from these effects, it’s worth pointing out that historically, what happens to Black workers comes to afflict all of America.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025

But this is not the sort of series that will leave evil unpunished or afflict the good with senseless tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers.

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

Huntington’s disease afflicts about 40,000 patients in the U.S., and there are no current treatments that slow progression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 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

Another goal of Measure A is to reduce the number of people on the street suffering from severe mental illness, which according to the latest census afflicts more than 15,000 of the county’s homeless people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 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

“Or tell her that melancholy afflicts me still.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

They interviewed 191 afflicted people, and found that 177 reported eating at Mexican-style restaurants including Chipotle Mexican Grill and Qdoba before their illness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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

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

Some of us are afflicted with longer memories of Broadway’s best than the instant sensation TikTok generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

He could feel the bones of her afflicted back and shoulders.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

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

That has driven down costs but also pushed some companies to the brink in another instance of the hypercompetition sometimes blamed for afflicting China’s economic health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

What follows are the factors afflicting each region or market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Their bread-and-butter is comforting the most comfortable by afflicting the most afflicted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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