blight

Steve Kang, president of the Board of Public Works, said the city recently launched a rapid-response team dedicated to Koreatown to pick up bulky items and address other forms of blight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Policing Minister Sarah Jones said the rising figures were "a stark warning that hatred continues to blight our communities".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A number of postindustrial cities, including Detroit and St. Louis, have attempted similar strategies to reduce blight, but Baltimore’s recent progress stands out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It was triggered by potato blight which spread across Europe.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The longer the Nogtail is left undetected and the bigger it grows, the longer the blight on the farm into which it has entered.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

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

"We simply cannot afford to do nothing - the growth of our city's economy means that we need to urgently solve the problem of congestion that blights our roads."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023

Unless the vessels are maintained, they risk becoming environmental blights, experts have warned.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

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

But the blighted, white-painted structure stood for more than a decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

He introduced me to them as investors interested in the redevelopment of a blighted downtown property.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

But his tenure was an unpopular one, blighted by the Asian financial crisis, record unemployment and unease over Chinese interference in Hong Kong's affairs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Nothing prospered there in Hearth or tilth, all being blighted with illness, the spring seed frozen in the ground or the ripe grain rotten, and so it had been for many years.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026

Hungry mothers, dirty wards and poor care are blighting England's maternity services while staff receive death threats for working in some units, according to a new report.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

In the autumn of 1981, with three million unemployed and with riots blighting a number of inner city areas, Tebbit made the speech for which he will always be remembered.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

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