afflicted
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Throughout this year, the entire country seems to have been afflicted with the weather-app blues.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Several European nations have been afflicted by wildfires this summer during a succession of heatwaves.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Some of us are afflicted with longer memories of Broadway’s best than the instant sensation TikTok generation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
As a young doctor, Sabin became familiar with the suffering of those afflicted by polio following a 1931 outbreak and resolved to focus his research on the disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Hence when we domesticated social animals, such as cows and pigs, they were already afflicted by epidemic diseases just waiting to be transferred to us.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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