beset; besetting
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: to set or stud with or as if with ornaments
a crown beset with rubies
… leaves, whose edges were beset with thorns …—
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J. G. FrazerExamples of beset in a Sentence
A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today.
he's been beset by a lack of self-confidence virtually his entire life
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Stephanie Gosk, NBC news, 15 May 2025
The last loose change of extra time had been spent and still nothing could split Sunderland and Coventry City after 210 minutes beset by the angst of a season’s work being placed on the line.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Long before the film hit 4,200 theaters on March 21, though, Snow White was beset with controversies.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
In the years before his death, the pope was beset by several illnesses.
—Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Beset.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beset. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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