Example Sentences

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent the next two years bedeviling Mr. Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Mateo represents a paradox bedeviling the U.S. nursing landscape.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

The em dash is already quite accustomed to controversy, with a long history of charming and bedeviling authors, journalists and academics.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

In addition to upping their take of baby salmon in their new home, the colony is bedeviling transportation authorities.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

To his inferiors, his worrying is a bedeviling influence that irritates and helps produce the very incapacity for attention to detail that is required; and to superiors, it is a sure sign of incompetency.

From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton