bane
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The discrepancy echoes the oil market’s familiar bane of “missing barrels”—volumes that show up in one set of figures but can’t readily be accounted for elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The arrangement was aimed at minimizing the number and cost of change orders, which are the bane of construction projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
In this real-estate market, one man’s bane can be another man’s boon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
First is the same thing that is bane of gig-going music fans and frequent fliers alike: dynamic pricing.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Royal had read of the man’s exploits in the newspaper—lawyer, abolitionist crusader, bane of slavers and those who did their dirty work.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Summertime in Washington means not only heat and humidity, but includes the seemingly ever present possibility that those two seasonal banes can combine in creating thunder, lightning and a rapid rise in creeks.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Though she clearly champions her subjects, Brewer doesn’t pull any punches about why the festival fell apart after seven years, thanks to those classic banes of arts nonprofits, volunteer burnout and the failure to professionalize.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
But we know that paperwork was one of the banes of the housing crisis.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2016
One of the banes of commercial existence has been that Internet domain names can be registered by anyone, in a flash.
From Forbes ● Jan. 23, 2015
He had passed the banes of a dragon, he swore, so immense that he had ridden his hoise through its great black jaws.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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