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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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people
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Mr. King I am afflicted today by people who prepare their supplementaries and do not bother to listen to the answers.
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Of Headaches and Painkillers Headaches afflict millions of people every day.
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A spiritual vacuum afflicts many people .
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Those who are already afflicted are sick people and need our care as do all sick patients.
problem
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A similar problem may be afflicting the Telnet application.
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And those are not problems that afflict politics only.
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But traffic is only one of the population-related problems that afflict a city like Cairo.
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Clinton also asked Glickman to report back within 30 days with recommendations to help alleviate debt problems afflicting cattle producers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This type of pneumonia frequently afflicts elderly people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A similar problem may be afflicting the Telnet application.
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Apparently, mental illness is one of the few diseases requiring hospitalization where those afflicted are released before they are cured.
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He is rueful, polite, mildly disappointed, and afflicted by a low-key melancholy.
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He must learn to relax more, not be racked by the tortured tenseness that had afflicted him for the past weeks.
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Kidney stone disease afflicts mostly men between 20 and 55.
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Nerves afflict everyone in some way, and without them acting would be the poorer.
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Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare, afflicting about 1, 500 people in the United States.
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This particular example highlights two additional shortcomings which afflict our conventional political institutions.