afflicting

Example Sentences

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What follows are the factors afflicting each region or market.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

Their case is helped by the crisis afflicting Dundee University and evidence that much of further education is heading deep into the red and facing possible closures.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

AI adoption isn’t just a problem afflicting one company, but nearly all of them, according to researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

The conference ended with the passing of a multitude of resolutions dealing with China, India, Germany, Japan, and conditions afflicting various parts of the earth.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright