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

The dementia afflicting 85-year-old Marjorie is seen as an assault on her identity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

Many of the factors afflicting the California wine industry are also hurting winemakers in other parts of the world—and those winemakers have also been ripping out vines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis