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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Smoking is a major cause of cancer and other afflictions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because it is an affliction peculiar to women?
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Guess who I ran into on the street at the height of my affliction ?
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Life will contain its afflictions and troubles without unjust institutions adding to its lot.
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Many afflictions were cured or relieved for those who drank of it and great numbers of people journeyed there on pilgrimages.
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The man spits hatred at anyone who sees his humiliation and affliction .
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This was diagnosed as impetigo, an unpleasant and contagious affliction .