blight
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The $300 million Neighborhood Transformation Initiative cleared blight but failed to spur broad reinvestment in targeted areas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
John Shallman, a spokesperson for the billboard blight campaign who used to work with the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
He believes these will help “reverse the blight of social disintegration” and provide “freedom from the state as well as the market.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Multiple factors caused the famine, including the potato blight that destroyed the main source of food, and the political and socioeconomic circumstances of British colonial rule.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Since being caught, he’d been locked up at the state penitentiary, a blight on the bureau best unseen.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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