Example Sentences

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Job vacancies are bedeviling countless industries, not least health care, where employers are at wits’ end trying to fill nursing and other critical jobs.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2022

In nearly every episode the ladies gather at a restaurant to dissect whatever issues are bedeviling them that week, a device "Sex and the City" employed with enough success to make brunch and cosmopolitans fashionable.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2022

Labor shortages also are bedeviling the industry, which has struggled to fill jobs in production hubs like northern Indiana, where Thor is based.

From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2021

The company also offered a muted forecast for a key sales metric for the holiday fourth quarter amid supply constraints that are bedeviling the entire retail industry.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2021

But Mr. Conyers’s case differs significantly from the charges of groping that are bedeviling Mr. Franken.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017