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rife
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    The speculation has been rife, fingers pointed at the police, at Kamal Abdic, at Scott.†  (source)
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    The air was rife with the fragrant aromas of tree peonies and irises.†  (source)
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    The only one he recognizes immediately is an American: L. Bob Rife, the cabletelevision monopolist.†  (source)
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    They were rife for two days, struck despair into our hearts, and then died down again.†  (source)
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    He's talking to Phoebe Rifer and they're laughing about something.†  (source)
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    Then he was out of the room, out of the house, in the mild dust of the starlit road and the heavy rifeness of honeysuckle, the pale ribbon unspooling with terrific slowness under his running feet, reaching the gate at last and turning in, running, his heart and lungs drumming, on up the drive toward the lighted house, the lighted door.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    But the pea family (Leguminosae, to which H. alpinum belongs) happens to be rife with species that produce alkaloids, chemical compounds that have powerful pharmacological effects on humans and animals.†  (source)
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    I'm feeling more annoyed than I should by everything: by the fact that my friends ditched me after thirty whole seconds, by the fact that Rob's so drunk, by the fact that Kent's still talking to Phoebe Rifer, even though he's supposed to be obsessively in love with me.†  (source)
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    I say this not to romanticize my grandparents' way of life—which, as I've observed, was rife with problems—but to note that many in our community may have struggled but did so successfully.†  (source)
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    I see Kent standing in the corner talking to Phoebe Rifer and I think, I could walk up and kiss the heart-shaped mole under his eye, and it wouldn't make a difference.†  (source)
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    Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair.†  (source)
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    He's standing in the corner talking to Phoebe Rifer, and instantly my mind goes fuzzy, a big useless snowstorm.†  (source)
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    For one thing, a lot of his more creative efforts were rife with small inaccuracies, in-jokes almost, and he was not always so fastidious about his materials as someone turning out deliberate forgeries would have been.†  (source)
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