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

Examples of rife with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Protesters at the Northwestern encampment have not followed school rules, the lawsuit says, alleging the encampment was rife with antisemitism. Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024 And yet, on campuses already rife with tension over the Israel-Hamas war, sympathy only goes so far among fellow students and university leaders trying to restore order. Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 2 May 2024 Her memories from prior Met Galas are rife with comical missteps, including a hilarious mix-up with Tom Brady. Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 2 May 2024 Luckily, the web is rife with plentiful powder puffs to suit your beauty needs. Annie Blackman, Allure, 2 May 2024 Needless Deaths: Middle-class landowners in Turkey got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024 Tesla message boards have been rife with speculation about what Musk’s August announcement would be. David Ingram, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024 For instance, if a user enters basic election questions into a third-party search engine that cannibalizes OpenAI models, the answers can be rife with errors, outdated facts, and other blunders. Mekela Panditharatne, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024 The program is rife with fraud and has deviated far from its intended purpose as a job-creation program, becoming mostly a method for millionaires from China and other places to become permanent residents. Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2024

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“Rife with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rife%20with. Accessed 7 May. 2024.

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