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

"Yes, there are a small minority of people in the Grangetown area who blight those communities. But we will continue relentlessly to serve our communities."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

It was triggered by potato blight which spread across Europe.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

He also ramped up the blight elimination campaign, using state and city funds and a $3 million grant from the Hard Rock Casino, which opened on the outskirts of Gary in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Instead of a chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight—something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests?

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Much of Western Europe is going through its wettest spring in living memory and even in early June, land lays unsown and blights are ravaging the lands, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

The motion passed on Monday acknowledged that the "perceived demands of Ofsted are the major contributor to the excessive workload and bureaucracy that blights the lives of teachers".

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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

It is not the first time disruption has blighted Nats' control system.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Niger has been ruled for three years by a military junta that has struggled to contain jihadist violence, which has blighted the west African country for around a decade.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 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

"These e-bikes are blighting communities, they're making it unsafe for people to live - so we're taking action," said Supt Emma Fox, who oversees the raids.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

He warned NEETs could rise to one in six young people, potentially blighting lives for decades.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

And whether from its fumes or from the blighting of our hopes, my husband began to suffer again from rheumatism, and at the same time the old bouts of fever began.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya