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beleaguer

verb as in harass, besiege

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Late in 2008 he wrote a letter expressing love for both the incoming Barack Obama but also “my beleaguered superpower.”

The beleaguered bride, in her dress, perspired through her makeup on a warm afternoon.

The deal has lifted beleaguered drug stocks by pointing a way for companies to remove the threat of tariffs and deal with U.S. pricing pressures.

The looming economic blow comes as Haiti’s beleaguered government struggles to contain gangs that have taken over nearly the entire capital, Port-au-Prince.

Among those who criticized the decision, which was reversed by South Carolina’s Supreme Court, was Harmeet Dhillon, the San Francisco attorney who now heads the Justice Department’s beleaguered Civil Rights Division.

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