rife with
idiom
: having a large amount of (something bad or unpleasant) : full of (something bad or unpleasant)
The school was rife with rumors.
a history rife with scandal
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Defense attorneys, though, countered that the cameras didn’t pick up any distinguishing features, and that the identifications were rife with bias and flaws.
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Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2024
Eventually, these once verdant gardens became rife with weeds and other unsightly overgrowth.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2024
His inbox is rife with sufferers of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a bias where those missing crucial information have more confidence than the experts.
—Andréa Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Perhaps the biggest: While the crime scene was rife with physical evidence including bloody shoeprints, bloody fingerprints and hairs presumably belonging to the perpetrator, defense experts testified that none of the forensic evidence implicated Williams.
—Jenna Greene, Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024
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Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2024
Eventually, these once verdant gardens became rife with weeds and other unsightly overgrowth.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2024
His inbox is rife with sufferers of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a bias where those missing crucial information have more confidence than the experts.
—Andréa Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Perhaps the biggest: While the crime scene was rife with physical evidence including bloody shoeprints, bloody fingerprints and hairs presumably belonging to the perpetrator, defense experts testified that none of the forensic evidence implicated Williams.
—Jenna Greene, Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Rife with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rife%20with. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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