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Narrator: Today's word is "Riddled" — adjective, pronounced /ˈrɪdld/, with the stress on "rid".
Narrator: Riddled means full of something unpleasant, such as holes, errors or disease.
Narrator: In plain English, riddled means full of bad things.
Narrator: It comes from riddle, an old word for a coarse sieve, full of holes.
Narrator: A common collocation is "riddled with errors", which describes a text full of mistakes.
Narrator: It differs from "full", because full is neutral, while riddled is always negative.
Narrator: In a second sense, "riddled with guilt" means feeling deeply guilty.
Narrator: Editing, construction, medicine and journalism all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: riddled means peppered with problems.
Speaker A: Why did the teacher return your essay?
Speaker B: It was RIDDLED with errors! It comes from riddle, an old sieve.
Speaker A: Spelling mistakes?
Speaker B: Dozens.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The beams were riddled with woodworm", building. "The report is riddled with errors", editing. "He was riddled with doubt", feelings.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Always follow it with "with", as in "riddled with holes".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Full is its cousin, infested its twin, and peppered an alternative — yet riddled keeps its holey charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "riddled" in AI prompts — useful for proofreading and code quality.
Speaker A: How for proofreading?
Speaker B: Fix everything.
Prompt: Correct this document, which is riddled with spelling and grammar errors.
Speaker A: And code?
Speaker B: Clean up.
Prompt: Find the bugs in this function, which seems riddled with off-by-one errors.
Speaker A: Could it help surveys?
Speaker B: Yes, for buildings.
Prompt: Write a survey note for a roof timber riddled with woodworm.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Data cleaning.
Prompt: Clean this spreadsheet, which is riddled with duplicates and blank rows.
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