bedevil

Greenspan, who died at age 100, opened the door to issues that still bedevil the Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

I continued to bedevil the Law Society and registrar with demands, which they continued to deflect.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Alas, even the raised stakes cannot shake them from the emotional and intellectual torpor that bedevils Chekhov’s celebrated characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

As for the play, much still bedevils it.

From New York Times ● May 24, 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

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 same anxiety that has always bedeviled men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

When Paul and Gaz confront Dee, Taylor’s response is so cowardly that it’s pathetic, suggesting a spinelessness that bedeviled him long before he wound up in jail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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

During one collaboration, he and Philip Abelson were bedeviled by the erratic performance of an ionization chamber until Abelson noticed that its behavior corresponded to Kamen’s wanderings around the room.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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

Radio interference has bedevilled other astronomical searches before, such as when flickering signals picked up at Parkes turned out to be the result of people microwaving their lunches.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2021

He turned a legion—that is, several thousands—out of the possessed Gadarenes; there being at least one apiece for the bedevilled swine who were driven to destruction.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

"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

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

A loud yell went up from both officers and enlisted men, as the word went up and down the line that the dude they had been bedeviling was none other than Buffalo Bill.

From An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

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

This roving caravan of marvels would be a logistical nightmare and a financial impossibility, but it would best express the ethos of the global museum, free of the bedevilling complications of place.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2015

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