blight
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“The urban blight has become so bad,” said Andy Heyward, chief executive of the animation company Kartoon Studios.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
So if everyone hates the light blight, why do cities keep installing it?
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Mary’s presence is a malignancy, a blight on the name that Sam has worked so hard to build, an identity that’s separate from Mary’s and secure in its solitude.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
"These measures will ensure we stay one step ahead of waste criminals and protect the communities, businesses and environment that they blight," he added.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
South Shore hadn’t yet tilted the way other neighborhoods had—with the better-off people long departed for the suburbs, the neighborhood businesses closing one by one, the blight setting in—but the tilt was clearly beginning.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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