How to Use affliction in a Sentence
affliction
noun
- She lost her sight and is now learning to live with her affliction.
- He died from a mysterious affliction.
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The injury was the start of a lifelong affliction with headaches.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
3 Aug. 2022
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But if the play’s afflictions are ours, so must be its hope.
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Lily Janiak,
San Francisco Chronicle,
29 Apr. 2018
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This is a common affliction for those of us who love games.
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Todd Martens,
chicagotribune.com,
14 Oct. 2019
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Matzo may be known as the bread of affliction, but the Passover meal is a feast.
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Bon Appétit,
22 Mar. 2021
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As is the case for most modern afflictions, there’s an app for that.
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Katie Hill,
Outdoor Life,
14 Sep. 2023
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Barton and whoever is the point guard at the time all seem to suffer from the same affliction.
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Mike Singer,
The Denver Post,
13 Dec. 2019
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Strangers always fail to grasp the importance of the town’s affliction.
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Suzanne Berne,
Washington Post,
27 June 2022
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His coinage started to catch on, thanks to those who were grateful to have a name for their affliction.
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Yohana Desta,
HWD,
3 July 2017
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And there is also just the heartache of why — the affliction, the crushing emotional weight.
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Deborah Netburnstaff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2022
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But the affliction has also been with us for millennia.
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Moises Velasquez-Manoff,
WIRED,
8 May 2018
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Sores covered my body like Job in his great affliction.
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David Reamer,
Anchorage Daily News,
12 June 2022
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Every parent who has lost a child will one day die of that chronic affliction.
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Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2023
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There the poem ends, after a mere six stanzas of affliction.
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Ange Mlinko,
The New York Review of Books,
20 Aug. 2020
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This was a common local affliction in those days, traced to a bad run of Swiss cheese.
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Hart Pomerantz,
The New Yorker,
30 Dec. 2019
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The larger tech industry suffers some of the same affliction.
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Jason Tanz,
WIRED,
27 Mar. 2018
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But the abiding assumption is that grief is a private affliction, and the cure will be private too.
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Clair Wills,
The New York Review of Books,
3 Nov. 2020
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What can explain the astonishing rise and spread of this affliction?
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Jill Lepore,
The New Yorker,
17 May 2021
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His affliction for the blues has expanded from jazz to murder ballads.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2023
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Then comes the loss of Marian Hossa to a skin affliction.
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Steve Rosenbloom,
chicagotribune.com,
21 Mar. 2018
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My own recent affliction seems like some combination of the two.
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Amanda Mull,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2021
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Her dream was to cure Lou Gehrig’s disease, the affliction that killed their great aunt.
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Danielle Paquette,
Washington Post,
27 Sep. 2022
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As the affliction spread, Italians called it the French Disease.
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Talia Herman,
ProPublica,
1 Nov. 2021
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What is clear is that the town’s affliction is not only accepted but cherished.
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Suzanne Berne,
Washington Post,
27 June 2022
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And so the fear is that folks could take that to an extreme if someone has an affliction, that isn't life threatening.
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CBS News,
16 Apr. 2023
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But Pollock said whoever submitted the affliction did quite a bit of work to get it there.
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Allen Kim,
CNN,
9 Jan. 2020
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Entire sections of the wall have been swallowed by weather and time — and that’s to say nothing of the many wars and manmade afflictions.
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Melanie Lieberman,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Mar. 2023
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In fact, Jefferson foresaw an end to a disease that was then the most deadly and most feared affliction in much of the world.
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Kyle Harper,
Time,
5 Oct. 2021
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There may be no other affliction that has carried so much of a stigma across history.
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New York Times,
25 Jan. 2022
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