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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The Trump administration has characterized USAID as an agency rife with fraud and worked to quickly dismantle it in his first few weeks in office.
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Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 6 Apr. 2025
Lake has attacked Voice of America and its sister networks as rife with liberal and anti-Trump bias.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 29 Mar. 2025
The trail contours around slopes thick with aspen and wildflowers, passes through forests rife with conifers and chanterelles, plunges across creeks and rivers, skirts crystalline lakes, and ascends a handful of high mountain passes.
—Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2025
Such schemes are rife with legal and logistical issues, and previous attempts - most notably the U.K.’s own similar Rwanda scheme and Italy’s current $720m Albania scheme - have proved very costly to taxpayers while doing little of what they’re supposed to do.
—Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 6 Apr. 2025
Lake has attacked Voice of America and its sister networks as rife with liberal and anti-Trump bias.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 29 Mar. 2025
The trail contours around slopes thick with aspen and wildflowers, passes through forests rife with conifers and chanterelles, plunges across creeks and rivers, skirts crystalline lakes, and ascends a handful of high mountain passes.
—Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2025
Such schemes are rife with legal and logistical issues, and previous attempts - most notably the U.K.’s own similar Rwanda scheme and Italy’s current $720m Albania scheme - have proved very costly to taxpayers while doing little of what they’re supposed to do.
—Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Rife with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rife%20with. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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