bedeviled

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The challenge of basing a long novel on a villain appears to have bedeviled Mr. Mahajan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

It is a piece of information that has bedeviled me since I read it 10 years ago, as I could never quite figure out where and how it fit into the timing of events.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2025

Buying the stock means believing that Fermi can overcome hurdles that have bedeviled better-established infrastructure companies.

From Barron's • Sep. 30, 2025

Further, the results of the study by Oregon Health & Science University involving neurosurgery patients suggests new possibilities for tapping into those areas to improve learning among people bedeviled by math.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

A cascade of work flowed to their firm, partly because Root managed to solve a puzzle that had bedeviled Chicago builders ever since the city’s founding.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson