beset
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The moves come as Americans are beset by concerns about the housing market, including rising mortgage rates and a lack of affordability.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Infantino will hope that this begins to draw a line under the latest, and perhaps biggest, controversy that has beset his 10-year tenure.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bass’ summer has been beset by a string of negative news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The adults as much as the teenagers find themselves beset by doubts about their futures, haunted by the ghosts of their pasts, or agonizing over the thorny matter of God’s presence or absence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
On top of panic that I’d lost my friend, I was suddenly beset by worries about my reputation.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
A similar problem besets Georgia's On Replay – a generic club track with a tra-la-la chorus.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
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
First, it emphasizes that even the MCU isn't free from the class conflict that besets the real world.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2019
Solitude, that dread goddess and mater saeva cupidinum, encircles and besets him, ever more threatening, more violent, more heart breaking—but who to-day knows what solitude is?
From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Unfortunately, sloppy handling of details is one of two chief weaknesses besetting “The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
In a sign of the troubles besetting the industry, one large almond-growing conglomerate has declared bankruptcy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
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
However, the difficulties besetting our task are so great that we cannot hope for more than tentative and incomplete answers.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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