bedevil

Crime rates have dropped, homeless tent encampments that block sidewalks and bedevil retail businesses have shrunk and foot traffic and transit ridership have risen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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

To tackle such “lawful but awful” content that frequently bedevils content moderators, the EU will require extra scrutiny for the biggest online platforms - those with 45 million monthly users.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

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

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 U.S. and Iran are locked in a diplomatic stalemate over issues that have bedeviled the two sides for years, as the conflict settles into a gray zone that is neither war nor peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

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

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

No doubt she knows a good deal about it; but it is not because she knows that she is bewildered and bedevilled in her intellect.

From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope

The seemingly simple task of sorting merchandise is among the many challenges bedeviling the company’s decadelong, multibillion-dollar quest to automate its warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

The em dash is already quite accustomed to controversy, with a long history of charming and bedeviling authors, journalists and academics.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

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 James Arthur Kjelgaard

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

Zuckerberg is hoping to erect a scalable system, an orderly decision tree that accounts for every eventuality and exception, but the boundaries of speech are a bedevilling problem that defies mechanistic fixes.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018

O happy days, when men received From sire to son what all believed, And left the other world in bliss, Too busy with bedevilling this!

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell