beset
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The Czech - whose flashes of brilliance in his young career have been beset by injury - was struggling to move and needed eight match points to close out victory.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Once the French menace had lifted, Britain increasingly beset America with taxes that Washington felt it had no right to levy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Stock markets have been beset by commentary comparing current levels, powered by searing tech stocks, to the dotcom era of the late 1990s.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
The major contemporary art gathering, dubbed “the Olympics of the art world,” is beset with drama and geopolitical froideur.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
My course, which for a while had looked so clear and hopeful, seemed likely to become as tortuous and beset with secrets as it had been in Ehrenrang.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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