rife with
idiom
: having a large amount of (something bad or unpleasant) : full of (something bad or unpleasant)
The school was rife with rumors.
a history rife with scandal
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Needless Deaths: Middle-class landowners in Turkey got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage.
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Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Tesla message boards have been rife with speculation about what Musk’s August announcement would be.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
For instance, if a user enters basic election questions into a third-party search engine that cannibalizes OpenAI models, the answers can be rife with errors, outdated facts, and other blunders.
—Mekela Panditharatne, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
The program is rife with fraud and has deviated far from its intended purpose as a job-creation program, becoming mostly a method for millionaires from China and other places to become permanent residents.
—Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2024
The genre’s history is rife with allegiances to the old ways of American prejudice, and no bearing or social position can change that.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024
The writing is cerebral yet accessible (a rare balance for the director), rife with dark humor that satirizes how malleable world leaders can be — and the self-serving nature of the people pulling their puppet strings.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
Evans’ life and career was rife with the kind of juicy anecdotes that make such memoirs endlessly enjoyable reads, and his is unparalleled in that regard.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Sports Illustrated: The sports publication’s owner sued Manoj Bhargava, an energy drink mogul whose foray into media has been rife with chaos and conflict, accusing him of failing to pay millions of dollars for the rights to publish the iconic magazine.
—Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Tesla message boards have been rife with speculation about what Musk’s August announcement would be.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
For instance, if a user enters basic election questions into a third-party search engine that cannibalizes OpenAI models, the answers can be rife with errors, outdated facts, and other blunders.
—Mekela Panditharatne, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
The program is rife with fraud and has deviated far from its intended purpose as a job-creation program, becoming mostly a method for millionaires from China and other places to become permanent residents.
—Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2024
The genre’s history is rife with allegiances to the old ways of American prejudice, and no bearing or social position can change that.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024
The writing is cerebral yet accessible (a rare balance for the director), rife with dark humor that satirizes how malleable world leaders can be — and the self-serving nature of the people pulling their puppet strings.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
Evans’ life and career was rife with the kind of juicy anecdotes that make such memoirs endlessly enjoyable reads, and his is unparalleled in that regard.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Sports Illustrated: The sports publication’s owner sued Manoj Bhargava, an energy drink mogul whose foray into media has been rife with chaos and conflict, accusing him of failing to pay millions of dollars for the rights to publish the iconic magazine.
—Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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