blighted
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McCullum, director of cricket Rob Key and Test captain Ben Stokes are to remain in their posts despite the 4-1 Test defeat in Australia, a tour blighted by poor planning, substandard performances and off-field issues.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
On a frigid January day Ms. Kozma drove me around a dense industrial area, pointing out how factory construction has blighted the landscape and disrupted traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
O’Brien is right, we desperately need hope, something to hold onto when the world and the film industry are at their most bleak and blighted.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026
“Right in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the blighted Oceanwide Plaza has been an eyesore for too long due to failed ownership,” Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement Friday.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 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
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