suffer
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Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Ordinary companies suffer when executives leave, but the corporate form blunts the impact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Murphy is actually the fourth Senate Democrat to suffer a stroke in recent years.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
As such, it could be argued that Wolves were the first team to suffer a double drop from the Premier League after being relegated in 2011-12.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Adams was not the kind of man to suffer in silence.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The reasons sub-Saharan Africa suffers such disproportionate harm are structural rather than accidental.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Her detective, the Victorian policeman William Monk, suffers from amnesia, and sometimes wonders exactly who he is.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
He remains in a 9-by-6-foot cell at the Rodeo I prison near Caracas, where his family says he has lost 25 pounds and suffers from unaddressed cardiac issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Even though the community suffers from extensive poverty due in part to discrimination and the few resources refugees from a war-torn country are able to marshal, it has also produced a large number of entrepreneurs.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Porgyand Bess suffers from much the same problem as Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice or Wagner’s Parsifal, both of which arouse discussion of perceived anti-Semitism because they are both still performed today.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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"It's important to keep in mind that not all species suffered catastrophic losses at Boracéia," Boyette said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Wilkin, meanwhile, suggested that international rugby league's exposure has suffered because of a lack of a free-to-air live television deal.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The state has long suffered from a housing shortage, driven largely by local zoning restrictions, high construction costs and lengthy permitting bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Not long ago, even the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange suffered astronomical losses from a cyberattack believed to have been carried out by a hacking group," President Lee Jae Myung said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Germans were required to disarm, to surrender their overseas colonies, and to pay massive reparations for the losses suffered by the Allies.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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A species can carry a dangerous pathogen without necessarily suffering catastrophic losses, particularly if its members can tolerate the infection.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Ukraine’s ability to help its suffering population could prove crucial to its ability to resist and recover after the war ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
And in Antigua he is expected to voice his "sincere sorrow", having spoken about the "great suffering of the past" in the Bahamas last week.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“My earlier statement didn’t go far enough. I know many people are suffering economically,” she wrote “Wearing a costume like I did was insensitive and not funny. I am very sorry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
I think he expected me to agree wholeheartedly about the suffering of the Haitian poor and the injustices of the world, but I couldn’t always summon the same anger he felt.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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