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By coordinating insecticide applications with the beetles' reproductive cycles, researchers hope to disrupt larval development before the insects can inflict extensive damage on blueberry roots.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

The hosts forced four turnovers, including two Purdy interceptions, as they won 29-20 to inflict a first loss on the new Super Bowl favourites.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Without relief, Defendants’ calculated campaign will continue to inflict fear, to destabilize SAL’s operations, and to cause further irreparable harm.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

But Krishnan-Harihara believes any sanctions imposed on the club are unlikely to inflict lasting damage on Manchester's economic prospects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

She understands, as only a mother can, the terror she is about to inflict, the ache Enrique will feel, and finally the emptiness.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Jocelin’s certainty is absolute; so is the damage it inflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

This includes Dolan’s fronting of an embarrassing blues-rock band, often while sporting a fedora, and he inflicts his music on audiences by installing himself as the opener for acts like the Eagles.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

There's also the very visible, and seemingly intractable, problem of homelessness, which inflicts misery on the thousands who suffer it and scars the streets of great cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

The pain that Beckett inflicts on both women registers silently on his handsome craggy face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

Is humanity worth the pain it inflicts upon itself?

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Economists at the New York Federal Reserve have found that these levies have inflicted a heavy hit on many common consumer goods.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

These adverse moves have wrong-footed the hedge-fund community and inflicted severe losses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Second World War, meanwhile, inflicted its own deadly toll -- the Soviet Union suffered the highest casualties, with 20-27 million people estimated to have died, both civilians and military.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

His comments, in his interview with me, followed by no fewer than two attempts to backtrack 24 hours later, amount to perhaps his biggest self inflicted tangle since he arrived in Downing Street in July.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

When Walt’s double life came to light, the revelations inflicted deep wounds.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

BYD and other Chinese automakers have witnessed substantial growth in Europe in recent years thanks to their relatively cheap lineups of vehicles that are enticing local drivers and inflicting pain on domestic carmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The overstretched will slide into financial distress, inflicting losses on banks and on the private lenders that have proliferated.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

They hoped they'd left the Champions League drawing board behind, but they're right back where they were when Kairat and Midtjylland and Ferencvaros and Cluj and AEK were the ones inflicting the pain.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

In his novel “Sacred Hunger,” Barry Unsworth wrote: “Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

He must only guard against inflicting serious injury on anyone who serves him and anyone he has near him in the service of his principality, as Antoninus had done.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli