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The phrase "afflicted by a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone or something that is suffering from a particular condition or problem.
Example: "He was afflicted by a rare disease that left him unable to walk."
Alternatives: "suffering from a" or "burdened by a".
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Yet that relationship is afflicted by a unique pathology.
They may indeed have been afflicted by a sudden incapacity.
MANY countries have been afflicted by a "resource curse".
When he was young, he was afflicted by a speech impediment.
Alcoholics tend to be afflicted by a troubled relationship with the truth.
Long afflicted by a substance abuse problem, Lymon died in 1968 from a drug overdose.
But Little was afflicted by a sense of "life-altering loss".
Worse, he's afflicted by a shaking problem and a weepy courtship style.
He was sixty years of age and since 1919 had been afflicted by a mental illness.
Americans, he found, were afflicted by a "strange melancholy... in the midst of their abundance".
Britain today is afflicted by a kind of perfect storm of problems.
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