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riddled

[ rid-ld ]

adjective

  1. filled with, and often thoroughly weakened by, something undesirable (used in combination):

    For decades taxpayers subsidized this fault-riddled nuclear plant, with its defective reactors and substandard construction.

  2. pierced in many places (usually used in combination):

    His bullet-riddled body was found two days later.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of riddle 2.
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It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

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He’s a man riddled with contradicting views and tones, as is “The Shrouds.”

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The 10% universal tariff is now riddled with exemptions, and the biggest carve outs are for many nations with massive trade surpluses from electronics manufacturing.

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We had to operate carefully, because the country is riddled with informers and secret police who spy on their own people for the ruling military junta.

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Mr Robinson, who runs Hello Starling, a Cardiff-based advertising agency, said vacancies at his business were attracting applications that were riddled with AI-generated sentences.

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