beset
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Both moves come as American consumers are beset by concerns about the housing market, including rising mortgage rates and affordability.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Emigration isn’t cheap, Ms. Kaushal reminds us: “Populations beset with high levels of poverty and starvation simply do not have the means to emigrate.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Simon’s powers flare up uncontrollably when he’s beset by anxiety and self-doubt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The results included $280 million in losses on the VC-25B program for the presidential plane, Air Force One, which has been beset by delays and cost overruns.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
She seemed suddenly beset upon by some frantic animation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
Mr Vance credits that stability with his success in lifting himself out of the poverty that besets the Appalachians.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2021
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
A common trouble besets them all: the limiting authority is placed in external and arbitrary juxtaposition to the personal initiative which it professes to support.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
Unfortunately, sloppy handling of details is one of two chief weaknesses besetting “The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
The findings suggest kids have been caught in the crossfire of simultaneous immigration and housing crises besetting the city.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
He also followed up on prior deals to provide arms and training to regional powers while adroitly sidestepping the deadly frictions currently besetting the Middle East.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
As the small industry grappled to find new technology, it also blamed regulators for besetting it with rules the new companies evaded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
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
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