bedeviled
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A question has bedeviled a wealthy Lake Tahoe enclave for years: Who is poisoning the towering trees that stand sentry on the lake’s North Shore?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
But if you are an AI company about to launch an IPO, you say that very soon you will cure cancers, produce music only angels have heard, solve equations that have bedeviled mankind for millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Mr. Holland’s information about the sheaves of Wilde forgeries that bedeviled booksellers’ shelves in the 1930s?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Hand him a first-class ticket to any conflict zone on Earth and his diplomatic temperament would ease tensions that have long bedeviled U.N. envoys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The old man who had called the police was the same one whom we had constantly bedeviled as we snatched transfer pads earlier that week.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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