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The results included $280 million in losses on the VC-25B program for the presidential plane, Air Force One, which has been beset by delays and cost overruns.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

In recent years it has been beset with problems, with an inspection concluding last year that 44% of prisoners felt unsafe, external.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

The moisture should provide some relief from hot temperatures that have beset the area, although it will also raise humidity levels, meaning that conditions likely won’t cool as much at night, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

In the mid-1980s, Hanoi was beset by hyperinflation and food shortages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The journey is supposed to take fifty-four minutes, but it rarely does: this section of the track is ancient, decrepit, beset with signalling problems and never-ending engineering works.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

A similar problem besets Georgia's On Replay – a generic club track with a tra-la-la chorus.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

The accounts of ramming must also be seen through the panic that naturally besets humans when they encounter such enormous animals.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

The logistical confusion that sometimes besets the narrative, splintering outward even as it barrels toward its grim conclusion, is matched by creeping undercurrents of doubt and anxiety at every turn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2021

While armed conflict besets much of the country, Beileh’s ministry and al-Shabab now compete over the most basic function of governance: to collect revenue and provide services.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2019

We see a man, a genius perhaps—a man having qualities that all must admire; but he has one great vice—one sin which easily besets him.

From Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Dresser, Christopher

The mood among German consumers continues to darken as the pressures besetting Europe’s largest economy take their toll on sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2025

The findings suggest kids have been caught in the crossfire of simultaneous immigration and housing crises besetting the city.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

He also followed up on prior deals to provide arms and training to regional powers while adroitly sidestepping the deadly frictions currently besetting the Middle East.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

The problems besetting the Guatemalan Consulate have been snowballing since March 2020, causing delays and other glitches for Guatemalan citizens trying to process and obtain passports, personal identification documents, consular identification cards and birth certificates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens