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They added: "Homicides are at their lowest level in almost 50 years, theft and other offences that blight local areas are also falling, while charges are going up significantly."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Mountains of festering trash blight the streets of the capital, as dump trucks don’t have fuel to pick up the waste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

While many saw blight at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Holbrook Street, a local artist saw opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Fly-tipping incidents continue to blight areas right across Wales, with figures released earlier this year the highest since 2009.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

I wish we could point to a new robust corner of Minnehaha and Lake Street where the condemned Third Precinct still blights the corner, but we can’t.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025

To many, it’s ugly vandalism that blights the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024

The price of chocolate has been rising as adverse weather and disease blights cocoa crops in West Africa.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024

For the first time, digital data was available that allowed preventive action: spotting tree blights in early stages or providing comprehensive information on watersheds for crop planning and flood protection.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

I know that firsthand, having grown up without economic privilege and having worked in neighborhoods blighted by socioeconomic hardship.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Back pain is one of the UK's most common conditions that has blighted millions over generations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

When Melton became mayor in 2024, he said he sought advice from Detroit’s then-mayor, Mike Duggan, who had helped revitalize his city by eliminating blighted buildings and curbing the population exodus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The army has been blighted by several scandals -- particularly over an unpopular mobilisation drive, the treatment of conscripts and reports of widespread absenteeism and equipment shortages in some units.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

As I drove out of town, I saw an ancient woman standing in a blighted field.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Slavery shaped the Americas for four centuries, blighting the entire hemisphere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026

The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

He’s pledging an extra £1bn for the agriculture budget, and to re-negotiate overseas trade deals and address worker shortages blighting the sector.

From BBC ● May 29, 2024

Next time you feel like littering, think of the bird you may harm and the beauty you are blighting.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

This I had believed with all my being, but now, though still inwardly affirming that belief, I felt a blighting hurt which prevented me from trying further to defend myself.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison