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But it had been beset by corruption allegations and was on the brink of insolvency.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

But in recent years it has been beset by scandal.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

His successor inherits an economy beset by challenges, including fragile growth, flaring inflation and a volatile rupiah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Both moves come as American consumers are beset by concerns about the housing market, including rising mortgage rates and affordability.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

We are still beset by plain diseases, and we do not control them; they are loose on their own, afflicting us unpredictably and haphazardly.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Researchers have now gained new insights into how that water pollution is creating air pollution that besets nearby communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

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

Mr Vance credits that stability with his success in lifting himself out of the poverty that besets the Appalachians.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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

I have yielded to the worst temptation that besets a novelist—the temptation to begin with a striking incident without counting the cost in the shape of explanations that must and will follow.

From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous

But even jaded readers will be startled by the scope of the self-organizing tyranny besetting the book world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

Another foe besetting both Ukrainian and Russian forces is a more elemental force — the mud that follows winter’s end, transforming wide swaths of the front line into swamps of brown ooze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

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