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afflicting

/ əˈflɪktɪŋ /

adjective

“This Vanderbilt person is a perfect example,” Beyer says of the “PTSD” afflicting so many in the transgender community.

Genetically modified crops have been touted as a solution to many of the woes afflicting agriculture.

Exit might give them a nice export boost, relieving some of the crippling unemployment currently afflicting Italian workers.

To be fair, the problems afflicting the Massachusetts GOP are far from unique.

First, it reflects the polarization afflicting the Republican party and its intolerance of dissent.

The situation à trois thenceforward became, for Tom, an acutely afflicting one.

It was all beyond him somehow, the reversal of rôles so afflicting, tears and laughter so oddly mingled.

It was more than distressing, it was afflicting—the letters tore an established reputation into a thousand pieces.

He as well as Brisset was called in consultation regarding a very serious malady afflicting Raphael de Valentin.

The fear of ceasing to exist, is it more afflicting than the thought of having not always been?

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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