bedevil
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But here, it’s directed at the young phenom Sasaki to bedevil hitters when he comes out in relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
The homeless tent encampments that block sidewalks and bedevil retail businesses have shrunk, while foot traffic and transit ridership have risen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
The film also retains surprising relevance today, as it explores a range of issues that continue to bedevil contemporary India.
From BBC ● May 17, 2024
Diseases like Alzheimer's, strokes and other cognitive impairments continue to bedevil doctors seeking a cure.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024
I continued to bedevil the Law Society and registrar with demands, which they continued to deflect.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
To start, artificial intelligence likely will give individuals a much more precise answer to the question that bedevils so much of retirement planning today: How long will I live?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
It is a problem that Sullivan admits bedevils him to this day, although he also notes that CPAPs have evolved over the years to become much more comfortable than during his 1980 experiment.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2023
As for the play, much still bedevils it.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
To tackle such “lawful but awful” content that frequently bedevils content moderators, the EU will require extra scrutiny for the biggest online platforms - those with 45 million monthly users.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
I don’t claim that Powell had it all figured out: American history bedevils the most earnest attempts to make sense of it.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
Russia seized the islands from Japan in the dying days of World War II and a dispute over their sovereignty has bedeviled relations between Moscow and Tokyo ever since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The challenge of basing a long novel on a villain appears to have bedeviled Mr. Mahajan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
No one is predicting the same type that bedeviled the economy during the 1970s, but the signs of a problem are there all the same.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
It is a piece of information that has bedeviled me since I read it 10 years ago, as I could never quite figure out where and how it fit into the timing of events.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025
His diabetes damaged his circulatory system and fostered a foot infection that bedeviled him for the rest of his life.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Or, thanks to streaming services, we can keep the same six or seven albums from 2001-2009 on repeat for the rest of our crisis bedevilled lives.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
But on both occasions it was bedevilled by hydrogen escaping from feed lines - among other issues.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2022
“Progress in arms control is also bedevilled by Newton’s Law,” he wrote in a 1987 essay.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
Toshiba, which has been bedevilled by accounting and governance crises since 2015, set up a special committee in April to solicit proposals after shareholders voted down a management-backed restructuring plan.
From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2022
"Wall, you don't want any bedevilled crabs, do you?"
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm
"But they will soon be bumping against the external problems that are bedeviling the industry."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Luckily, Scarlet comes up with a straightforward solution to everything that’s been bedeviling her: She simply declares an end to war, forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Mateo represents a paradox bedeviling the U.S. nursing landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Not surprisingly, their questions were the same ones bedeviling the rest of us.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
This Le Mengeant, the worthy killed in his armor, as above recorded, at the Pass of Marteras, had been the hero of more than one bedeviling exploit during his career thus untimely cut off.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
The whole affair became a test case for Pope Francis's aim of clearing up the Vatican's finances, which were long plagued by scandal, bedevilling the papacy of Francis's predecessor, Benedict XVI.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
Those updates should shrink the error bars on the telescope’s calibrations from the tens of percentage points that have been bedevilling astronomers in some areas, down to just a few percentage points.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2022
But the supply-chain snarl-ups, container traffic jams and chip shortages bedevilling companies worldwide show no signs of going away any time soon.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2021
The most recent strain bedevilling the EU arrived via Georgia in 2007.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
O happy days, when men received From sire to son what all believed, And left the other world in bliss, Too busy with bedevilling this!
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
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