bedevil

Greenspan, who died at age 100, opened the door to issues that still bedevil the Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Such are the occasional aggravations and annoyances that bedevil the tony section of Los Angeles that Harris calls home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

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

Then he spat river water all over her skirt and she knew he lived to bedevil her again.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

“These narratives form, and people can’t resist them, and that bedevils people time and time again,” says Ptak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

Superconductor-based computing systems, where electrical resistance in the switches and wires falls to zero, might solve the cooling challenge that increasingly bedevils the world’s data centers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 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

But if you are an AI company about to launch an IPO, you say that very soon you will cure cancers, produce music only angels have heard, solve equations that have bedeviled mankind for millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Mr. Holland’s information about the sheaves of Wilde forgeries that bedeviled booksellers’ shelves in the 1930s?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Homeless encampments, piles of trash, vermin, and car break-ins have bedeviled the 4000 block of Babcock Avenue in Studio City since the property was abandoned, said neighbor Clint Ledsworth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Tolo hopes to build a baseline picture of her health: She’s young and in the prime of her reproductive years, but her periods are characterized by severe pain that has long bedeviled her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

In that bedeviled army there would be no more recruits.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

There are several recommendations in the report on financial redress, which it described as having been "bedevilled with unjustifiable delays".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

The financial hit incurred from the industrial action, confirmed to Reuters by a third source inside the company, follows a record loss in 2022 when the utility was bedevilled by reactor outages.

From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2023

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

“Progress in arms control is also bedevilled by Newton’s Law,” he wrote in a 1987 essay.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

For we have been bedevilled hither and thither with false marches and with false rumours of sailing and lines of route.

From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by David Christie Murray

"But they will soon be bumping against the external problems that are bedeviling the industry."

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent the next two years bedeviling Mr. Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

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

He was a mouse, bedeviling a cat with a broom straw.

From The Giants From Outer Space by Geoff St. Reynard

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

Zuckerberg is hoping to erect a scalable system, an orderly decision tree that accounts for every eventuality and exception, but the boundaries of speech are a bedevilling problem that defies mechanistic fixes.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018

The same question is currently bedevilling other platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which have struggled to face up to the tangible effects their virtual worlds can have upon the physical one.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2018

What on earth could be wrong with me, I asked myself, that I should be bedevilling  my students in this fashion?

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various