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verb

past tense of bedevil

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bedeviled
Verb
Home runs, which have haunted Rockies pitchers all season, especially at Coors Field, bedeviled Gordon. Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025 The new students were particularly bedeviled by the combination locks. Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Patchen Barss, Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2025 More recently, Airbus has been bedeviled by issues with the fuel-efficient engines that power the A320neo. Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025 That is a problem Trump simply doesn’t have right now, as waning global demand and a steady increase in output by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies have mitigated the concern about the energy price spikes that bedeviled the Biden administration. Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025 The Arizona Board of Regents retained William Morris Endeavor (WME) as a consultant to help tackle the post-COVID financial challenges that have bedeviled the main campuses and athletic departments of Arizona and Arizona State, the state’s two largest public universities. Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2025 The issue of how aggressively to go after Russian oil and gas bedeviled America and its allies during the Biden administration. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025 That arrangement was always intended to be temporary, but for nearly two decades, the details of unwinding such massive institutions have bedeviled three presidential administrations. Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedeviled
Adjective
  • Wednesday confronts Bianca, who is bewildered about her Siren-song not sticking; Wednesday is taking control of things now and Bianca needs to trust her.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Layered in cream, bruised, bewildered, bald.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • By surviving more than 3,500 cycles, the material demonstrated an unusually high degree of durability for this class of batteries, which are often plagued by rapid capacity fade.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Yet, the industry is plagued by low wages and high turnover rates.
    Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The same woman who used to have fun behind her camera now seems sleepy, dazed, and even drugged.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Some seemed visibly dazed to suddenly be back in their homeland.
    Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Griffin, who does clinical work in Long Island, New York, said his sister-in-law is in her 40s and quite wary of long COVID, the enduring, debilitating health issues that have afflicted millions of Americans who contracted the coronavirus.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But Thomas was afflicted by health troubles on the 26-56 Nets last year.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While his wife and daughter build a new life in Vienna, Roman stays behind — confused, restless and convinced that things will get better.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • With nearby MPs training their guns on her, Ziva laid down her weapon and sprawled across the blacktop, looking up at a confused Tali.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His deportation to El Salvador violated a 2019 court order that protected him from being deported to his home country because of concerns that he’d be persecuted by violent gangs.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Criminals are to be persecuted.
    Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Lincoln Nautilus is an underappreciated contender in the luxury midsize SUV market, part of a brand that seems tired, itself part of an automaker that seems perpetually distracted, itself part of an automotive ecosystem that is awash in luxury midsize SUVs from very, very tough competitors.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In 1980, when Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, seized oil fields on the Iranian border, under the assumption that Iran was too distracted to object, Iran saw an opportunity to pivot to fighting external enemies.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Emily Brontë appears in every way indifferent to the need for love and companionship that tortured the lives of her sisters.
    Emily Temple September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Several women were tortured and gang raped.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Bedeviled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedeviled. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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