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By Labor Day weekend, whatever had been afflicting the crows spilled over to the zoo birds: A cormorant swam in perpetual loops, and the flamingos’ necks bent like wilting tulips.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

Perhaps not so natural, a return of the twinges of conscience that had been afflicting him of late at inopportune moments.

From The Return of Blue Pete by Allan, Luke

The same thought had been afflicting Beverly with its probabilities for twenty-four hours and more.

From Beverly of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr

It revived and fastened upon me the disease which had been afflicting me, but which, up to that night, had been steadily disappearing.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. by Twain, Mark

Were even the guns and their machinery affected by this strange languor which had been afflicting both men and animals for the last day or two?

From The World Masters by Griffith, George Chetwynd