haunted

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The Chargers, meanwhile, take an offensive lineman to address the need that haunted them all last season after they were ravaged by injuries up front.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

But perhaps the best thing to come of the record was that Blake was able to “solve some riddles” that had haunted him for quite some time.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

He also, one suspects, has been haunted by a personal fear of making a mistake in an arena in which he has no experience.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

Some of them are haunted by their pasts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Slung between the two giants of modern biology, he was inevitably haunted by an acute sense of scientific inadequacy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee