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The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has approved 38 novel drugs so far this year, despite the chaos that has beset the agency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

The suspicion of streaming fraud has beset services like Spotify since they displaced downloads as the main way music is consumed.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

No small amount of bad press has beset San Francisco in recent years, often on themes of crime and homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2024

An estimated 5,000 people pack up their lives and leave every day, eager to flee the economic collapse and humanitarian crisis which has beset the oil-rich nation.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2018

It must be confessed," said L'Isle, "that an unhappy fatality in council and in action, has beset the Portuguese and Spaniards, throughout the war.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru