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She had been in and out of the emergency room, her doctor said she might have to get a colostomy bag, and depression was bedeviling her day by day.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2022

Over coffee in the club’s sunny dining room overlooking the links, Lewandowski and Hicks joked about the “toxic infighting” that some media outlets had claimed was bedeviling the campaign.

From New York Times • May 18, 2016

Fortunately for Ike, and perhaps for the nation, was the fact that he could stay relatively relaxed about the one problem that was bedeviling most other elected officials: getting re-elected in 1960.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suzanne was bedeviling him by her support and communications.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore