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Rockstar Games has spent eight years developing the sixth edition, a process beset by difficulties including the leak of development footage and code for the game online in 2022.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The £33m Acute Mental Health facility, on the site of Belfast City Hospital, was opened in 2019 but has also been beset by problems which have forced patients to be relocated.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The 84-year-old plant makes about 3% of what it did during peak production in 1944, according to Hacker’s research, and it has been beset by explosions and pollution violations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

But his lone term in office was beset by turmoil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Massasoit’s people were not only beset by loss, they were in danger of subjugation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

Those who are acquainted with the history of Spain will appreciate the difficulty that besets the historian in the matter of chronological accuracy, and even in a narration of many of the main events.

From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Crumbling masonry, ageing electrics, frequent leaks and high asbestos levels are some of the problems besetting the Palace of Westminster, parts of which are over 900 years old.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

The report also addresses another fear besetting the market of late which is the funding concerns surrounding neoclouds.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Both mother and daughter reflect on the troubles besetting their own family, as the mother tries to write a novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

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

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