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have beset

  • present perfect of beset.

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The moisture should provide some relief from hot temperatures that have beset the area, although it will also raise humidity levels, meaning that conditions likely won’t cool as much at night, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

At the city council, Cotton claimed making pay concessions to the largely male bin collecting workforce could reopen equal pay issues that have beset the authority.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2025

That’s because injuries have beset the unit, which looked like this to start the game: Left tackle Pole, left guard Ma’ake Fifita, center Konner Gomness, right guard Brock Dieu, right tackle Fa’amoe.

From Seattle Times Sep. 3, 2023

Attorneys for Xcoal, meanwhile, argued that their requests for Justice’s financial information are all the more critical given media reports about the financial problems that have beset him and his businesses in recent years.

From Washington Times Jun. 22, 2023

Often, surely, a strange "bewilderment" must have beset the Redeemer's soul, of which the external token was the sigh, the groan, the tears, which shewed Him to be so truly Man.

From Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)