bedevil
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afflict, agonize, anguish, beset, besiege, curse, excruciate, harrow, persecute, plague, rack, torment, torture
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While housing is a good long-term investment, it is bedeviled by multiple instances of market failure. — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, "Karl W. Smith: The next housing bubble could come from technology," 18 July 2019 While housing is a good long-term investment, it is bedeviled by multiple instances of market failure. — Karl W. Smith, chicagotribune.com, "The next housing bubble could come from technology," 2 July 2019 Although housing is a good long-term investment, it is bedeviled by multiple instances of market failure. — Karl W. Smith, latimes.com, "The next housing bubble could come from this technology," 1 July 2019 Why take a page of history so bedeviled with a lack of consensus and risk it, not as a straight play, but as a musical, in the highly competitive, cutthroat environment known as Broadway in the 21st century? — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, "In searching for the next ‘Hamilton,’ the makers of the musical ‘Oswald’ traverse the JFK minefield," 23 Aug. 2019 Stopping this descent continues to bedevil media companies. — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, "Kafer: Trolling of Shanann Watts’ family exposes the other dark web," 25 July 2019 The MetroCard has long bedeviled regular subway riders and famous ones, including Hillary Clinton, who had to swipe five times in a row to enter the subway during her presidential campaign in 2016. — New York Times, "So Long, Swiping. The ‘Tap-and-Go’ Subway Is Here.," 30 July 2019 Keep a curb on parking is a way for the developers to combat some of the effects of rising construction costs that have bedeviled builders in the Bay Area in recent years. — George Avalos, The Mercury News, "Housing project set to sprout in downtown San Jose," 29 July 2019 Big, heavy cars have bedeviled autonomous vehicle development. — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, "A Meditation on Moon Shots, a Mid-Engine Corvette, and More Car News This Week," 21 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bedevil.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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