bane
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In this real-estate market, one man’s bane can be another man’s boon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans’ 84-year-old former party leader and long-time bane of Democrats’ existence, checked into a hospital last month and has hardly been heard from since.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 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
Now he could well become L.A.’s first homeless mayor—fittingly, in a city where homelessness is the greatest civic obsession as well as the greatest civic bane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
She urged her horses to Olympus and asked Zeus if she might drive that bane of men, Ares, from the battlefield.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Tuesday seemed one of our more humid days, and the twin banes of heat and humidity joined to provide the triple-digit experience.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2021
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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