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verb

past tense of bedevil

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Recent Examples of bedeviled
Verb
Defensively, the Seahawks bedeviled Kyler Murray last year (seven sacks, three picks in a two-game sweep) and the Hawks’ D is better now. Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025 Once the lithium is being developed, the money will need to go to the State coffers and cannot be siphoned off by the typical corruption that has long bedeviled the country. Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedeviled
Adjective
  • William is totally bewildered and frustrated that it’s being sanctioned.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Looking at the Williams in the wrong spot, the crew looked bewildered, while one person signaled Sainz to move on.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But internally, Artie is struggling, plagued by feelings of isolation and the constant thought that the world has gone mad.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Bob McCann, executive director of The K-12 Alliance of Michigan, said the message from the governor and state superintendent telling school officials to spend money on school meals after the budget logjam in Lansing plagued them with months of funding uncertainty was met with frustration.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • With scraggly hair and beard and a dazed countenance of man waking up from an unspeakable dream, Reeves brings the tender vulnerability to his Estragon (aka Gogo).
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Hair disheveled, a dazed and bewildered look in his eyes, the coach trudged into his own dressing room to regroup and get a rundown of a growing list of injuries.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Subsequent names didn't stick either, despite cases of this unusual form of diabetes continuing to surface, especially in areas afflicted with malnutrition.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Just look at poverty, violence and health and housing inequities that have long afflicted Fairhill and West Kensington, two adjacent and heavily Puerto Rican neighborhoods in North Philadelphia.
    Héctor M. Varela Rios, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Italian journalist Federica Polidoro asked, drawing a range of confused and amused reactions from the three stars.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In the background of the video, a confused looking Howlett can be seen standing by in an identical long sleeve shirt as the one the actor is wearing.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Leatherface attacks, but the real villains turn out to be the townsfolk who persecuted the Sawyers after the original massacre.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The music flows with a nice distracted elegance.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Excessive speed, distracted and impaired driving are the leading causes of crashes in Michigan, MSP Second District Public Information Officer Lt.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Prosecutors said Grimes was beaten to death and tortured, suffering from multiple lacerations to her head, two black eyes, and a broken arm, ribs and nose.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Customers rarely remember the exact response time, unless they were tortured with on-repeat elevator music.
    Tayfun Bilsel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Bedeviled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedeviled. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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