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Example sentences for: afflict

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Like greed, materialism is a vice that tends to afflict those with more money than oneself.
It's the old commitment problem, which seems to afflict more men than women.
Yet Clinton and his aides have said not one word about the endless, borderless, remorseless lawsuits that afflict everyone else . Clinton has learned a selfish lesson from Flytrap: I, the president, should not have to suffer through a barrage of litigation and investigation.
His concerns are principally the taxes that afflict upper-income earners like himself (he's worth several million dollars) and issues that flow from his evangelical Christianity, such as opposition to gay rights.
Why do allergies afflict an increasing number of victims if they serve no useful purpose?