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The homeless tent encampments that block sidewalks and bedevil retail businesses have shrunk, while foot traffic and transit ridership have risen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

The Fremen, whose home planet is Arrakis, where Spice is mined, bedevil the miners and the troops that protect them and, as the indigenous population battling imperial usurpers, are the faction you should root for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024

The film also retains surprising relevance today, as it explores a range of issues that continue to bedevil contemporary India.

From BBC ● May 17, 2024

Diseases like Alzheimer's, strokes and other cognitive impairments continue to bedevil doctors seeking a cure.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024

Then he spat river water all over her skirt and she knew he lived to bedevil her again.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

“These narratives form, and people can’t resist them, and that bedevils people time and time again,” says Ptak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It is a problem that Sullivan admits bedevils him to this day, although he also notes that CPAPs have evolved over the years to become much more comfortable than during his 1980 experiment.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2023

Superconductor-based computing systems, where electrical resistance in the switches and wires falls to zero, might solve the cooling challenge that increasingly bedevils the world’s data centers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

This underscores that public safety — repeatedly cited as Seattleites’ greatest civic concern — is not a hopeless morass that bedevils concerted efforts to tackle.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

I don’t claim that Powell had it all figured out: American history bedevils the most earnest attempts to make sense of it.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

It can seem as if Rahma has mastered a fractured, attention-driven media ecosystem that has bedeviled traditional entertainment executives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

He was stepping up to the plate to run against Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who has long bedeviled Democrats.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

No one is predicting the same type that bedeviled the economy during the 1970s, but the signs of a problem are there all the same.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

Especially moving in “Neptune’s Fortune” is the insight and empathy Mr. Sancton brings to his consideration of the book’s bedeviled but oddly gallant protagonist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

I remembered the incident years ago when Granny was bedeviled by the two identical telephone booths.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Nawrocki's campaign has been bedevilled by revelations from his relatively unknown past, although so far the allegations appear not to have damaged his support.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

The financial hit incurred from the industrial action, confirmed to Reuters by a third source inside the company, follows a record loss in 2022 when the utility was bedevilled by reactor outages.

From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2023

Or, thanks to streaming services, we can keep the same six or seven albums from 2001-2009 on repeat for the rest of our crisis bedevilled lives.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

“Progress in arms control is also bedevilled by Newton’s Law,” he wrote in a 1987 essay.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

For nearly twenty years the Riel question in its various phases bedevilled Canadian politics and set race against race and province against province.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

"But they will soon be bumping against the external problems that are bedeviling the industry."

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

Luckily, Scarlet comes up with a straightforward solution to everything that’s been bedeviling her: She simply declares an end to war, forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Mateo represents a paradox bedeviling the U.S. nursing landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

Not surprisingly, their questions were the same ones bedeviling the rest of us.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024

Bud was oblivious, for he had come into Bennett's Woods to try to solve the problems that were bedeviling him.

From The Black Fawn by Kjelgaard, James Arthur

The whole affair became a test case for Pope Francis's aim of clearing up the Vatican's finances, which were long plagued by scandal, bedevilling the papacy of Francis's predecessor, Benedict XVI.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023

Those updates should shrink the error bars on the telescope’s calibrations from the tens of percentage points that have been bedevilling astronomers in some areas, down to just a few percentage points.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2022

But the supply-chain snarl-ups, container traffic jams and chip shortages bedevilling companies worldwide show no signs of going away any time soon.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2021

The most recent strain bedevilling the EU arrived via Georgia in 2007.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019

What on earth could be wrong with me, I asked myself, that I should be bedevilling  my students in this fashion?

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various