rife (adjective): very common (and often unpleasant)
Examples:
Winter storms are often rife with school closings, power outages, and snow ball fights!
"...when suspicion and cruelty were rife, and gaunt Hunger wept beside Bereavement, - in such a case, the work of any instrument of social regeneration was in large part foredoomed to failure."
W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk
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