affliction
Example Sentences
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I fear we are turning out the most confused generation, with an affliction of contradiction.
Meanwell did what he does best—find the next big thing in medicine by looking for the biggest afflictions facing the most patients.
On Tuesday night, he promised to “work across party lines to find a national solution to the age-old plague of gerrymandering, and in particular, to the more recent affliction of mid-decade gerrymandering.”
From Los Angeles Times
The duck is as well-known in Japan, where Aflac now does most of its business, anxieties over cancer and other afflictions running more deeply there than in the U.S.
Tseng went more than a decade without winning a tournament as she struggled through injuries, mechanical problems, and the one affliction no golfer would wish on their worst enemy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
