Example Sentences

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This partly explains, Cembalest writes, the deindustrialization that has afflicted its economy so debilitatingly in the last few years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

Next, let's go back nearly two decades to the financial crisis and the historically poor growth and negligible average earnings growth that has afflicted the UK ever since.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025

Leprosy, a disease that can cause nerve damage, lesions, and the loss of smell and eyesight, has afflicted people for millennia—and we’re not alone.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2024

The plague has afflicted humans at least as far back as the Bronze Age and has persisted through the centuries.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2024

“You are not understanding what has afflicted him,” Maire Solanya said.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo