plague
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Sisilla’s mission is to investigate a metallic world of exiled plague victims gone incommunicado.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The directors suggest Black Rock City has been visited upon by a plague of plutocrats and anarchists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The positioning remained impressively accurate, without the blind spots or wandering location dots that often plague consumer pet trackers.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
He’ll just declare victory and steer his plague of locusts to consume something else.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
Mr. Lawrence told them it was even more deadly than the Black Death, the plague that struck Europe during the time of the knights.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
We’ve had plagues and climate change before, to some degree, but until the Manhattan Project, humans weren’t really in control of that kind of existential, destructive power.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Acts of God are environmental: droughts, floods, locust plagues and the unusual winters that froze the Thames, contributing to recessions in 1710, 1739-40, 1762 and 1946-47.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Government inefficiency still plagues the country, and it has the worst pollution on the planet.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
The damned disease especially plagues Mexican American men like me, and many aren’t getting screened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Du Barry had warned us that Rose Marie caught a sickness that plagues the Gris.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
But conflicts with the more traditional guard plagued his tenure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Wildfires have also plagued France over the summer months.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote went “through hell” building a $20 billion oil refinery that was plagued by a decade of delays and cost overruns that doubled the tab for the project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Most of Aviv’s characters wander through life uneasily, plagued by misdiagnosed, undiagnosable or undertreated maladies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The thought of this plagued me—the memory of those bodies on the floor, bound with silken kerchiefs—and I found I could not breathe, and wished to run faster, that I might recover my breath.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Common munitions, compatible maintenance capabilities, pooled inventories, shared procurement—all were strengthened at the summit, helping to overcome the fragmentation plaguing much of European defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Chen Chaohui, the company’s founder and CEO, described it as “a pet TikTok” to Yahoo Finance, though one hopes pets will be spared the A.I.-generated fruit videos currently plaguing human users.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has, historically, been very public about his concerns about what is plaguing the nation’s well-being.
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
Anthropic’s momentum could add more fuel to the selloff plaguing the software sector as investors worry about AI spending “crowding out” software budgets, Thill wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
Other times, times like this, you wouldn’t’ve knowed there was nothing plaguing her.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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