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A new carbon-credit project in southern Africa wants to embrace companies’ desire for climate neutrality while distancing itself from problems that have besieged the market in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

Thousands of structures have been damaged in the fires that have besieged Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

"The security forces have besieged the scene," Farah Ali, a shopkeeper in Kismayu, told Reuters.

From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2022

In peacetime new threats have besieged Faydah, including cement factories and a farmer who raises cows nearly on top of a canal that predates the Roman aqueducts by four centuries.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

We leave a good supply for the hospitals, and for the individual clients besides who have besieged me ever since my departure became imminent.

From Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 by Kemble, Fanny