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Example sentences for: afflict

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What about the less theatrical, but equally troubling, civil problems that can afflict people in any walk of life?
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.
Reporters always like to take popular people down, and they're trained to sympathize with underdogs ("afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted").
Autoimmune diseases afflict a large segment of the population in Western countries.
Reactions to food afflict relatively few and, except for shellfish and peanut allergies, are most common among small children.