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While the new ordinance lowers hurdles for landlords interested in converting their underused buildings, they still face market and regulatory forces that bedevil all housing developers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

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 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

The problem is one that bedevils investors every time they pile into fashionable trades: other investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 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

That is what has bedeviled the $108 million Anderson estate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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

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

The questions of the physical location of the Museum, as well as its layout and exact relationship to the Library, have long bedeviled experts.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

But this glove, I say, may not have been that woman's, and if it was, she had not then bedevilled him.

From A Window in Thrums by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"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

In less than two years the world was rid of most of what had been bedeviling it.

From And All the Earth a Grave by C. C. MacApp

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

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