The phrase "afflict most" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact of something that causes suffering or distress to a majority or a significant number of people.
Example: "The recent economic downturn has afflict most of the population, leading to widespread hardship."
Alternatives: "trouble many" or "burden the majority".
Which is to say, they fall into the same pitfalls that afflict most investors.
Mid-term blues that afflict most governments do not mean they are heading for defeat, he says.
But he said that his administration would eliminate blackouts that afflict most of the state outside Mumbai within three years.
Indeed, some of their leaders are graduates of ITAM, one of Mexico's most prestigious universities, which spurns the ideological biases that afflict most others.
Like the heroines of Coal Miner's Daughter and Sweet Dreams, June has survived those painful marriages that afflict most country singers and inspire many of their songs.
When he spoke of depression, he meant the socioeconomic conditions that afflict most of Europe: five years without economic growth, compounded by no population growth, no productivity gains, and no rise in consumption, wages, investment, or purchasing power.
But some people in town worry that Audi could begin suffering the slump now afflicting most other European carmakers.
The disease, if it is a disease, afflicts most middle-aged and elderly women, and a large segment of men.
It is a natural psychological condition that afflicts most human beings grieving a major loss, at least for a time.
His real difficulty as an evangelist, however, is the one afflicting most multimillionaires who expound publicly on the virtues of simple living.
Such patient dedication bodes well for the new rulers' ability to address the deep social and economic maladies afflicting most Arab countries.
