as in to afflict
to cause persistent suffering to
a lingering cold bedeviled me for over a month
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Recent Examples of bedevil
The new students were particularly bedeviled by the combination locks.
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Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The argument isn’t without merit – since ESPN already has rights to these clips there isn’t much of the copyright concern bedeviling its parent company.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 20 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
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Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The argument isn’t without merit – since ESPN already has rights to these clips there isn’t much of the copyright concern bedeviling its parent company.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 20 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedevil
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Health advocates fear this could lead to higher rates of illness among children, which could worsen the health care disparities that already afflict the Black community.—
Nicquel Terry Ellis,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by a virus that primarily and most severely afflicts children.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Antisemitism, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and his constant airing of family dirty laundry have plagued the Grammy winner for nearly a decade, in parallel with his flirtations with MAGA and Christian salvation.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
22 Sep. 2025
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In the mid-1970s, the tiny farming town of Visalia, California, was plagued by a serial ransacker and rapist.—
Ian Berry,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.—
Fatma Tanis,
NPR,
21 Sep. 2025
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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
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Through the first-person narration of his protagonist, Nicholas, a teenager suddenly besieged by anxiety, Clune conveys with uncanny vividness what a panic attack feels like.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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Israel tried to take over Gaza City before in this war, besieging it and launching raids in its streets, but tens of thousands of people remained.—
Aya Batrawy,
NPR,
5 Sep. 2025
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Trump arrived in Britain in the wake of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting, while his host has been beset by far-right protests, sinking poll ratings and a recent scandal that led to a question about Jeffrey Epstein during Thursday's news conference.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Sooners' offensive line was an unmitigated mess last season, patched together with transfers and eventually beset by injuries.—
Chase Goodbread,
The Tuscaloosa News,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Bedevil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedevil. Accessed 25 Sep. 2025.
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