canker

Smith and Hume did not agree on every economic proposition, but they independently condemned the canker of the public debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

There was citrus canker, a viral infection that had plagued citrus for years prior to the arrival of greening.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

As humans, we are nothing if not fascinated by our own bodies, whether that’s picking a scab, prodding a canker sore or popping a pimple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

Q: A little over a year ago, my wife began to get canker sores, which she hadn’t had since her youth.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

I guess I developed some kind of canker sores in my intestines because of the Merrick’s, and filth leaked out into the rest of my body.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The blight precipitated an insidious acid in the American chestnut trees, and gnawed grievous cankers into their woody trunks.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

Cut out the cankers below where you see wilting/discolored tissue and above a node.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022

He was curled up in a ball in pain, with bloody diarrhoea, a fever, cankers in his mouth, a rash on his face and boils on his legs.

From BBC ● May 26, 2014

She points out signs of stress on nearby trunks, splotches of disease, bark splitting into ugly cankers.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2012

In 1904, a keeper at the Bronx Zoo in New York noticed that the zoo’s handsome chestnuts had become covered in small orange cankers of an unfamiliar type.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson