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Newsom drew a parallel to the plague of retail theft that captivated the state not long ago, and which the state has successfully combated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

It is no surprise that towards the end of 1599 Tycho spent several weeks at a secluded Imperial residence in the countryside to avoid an outbreak of plague.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

The catalyst for Jonathan Glatzer to create “The Audacity,” AMC’s dark satire of Silicon Valley that takes aim at the desperation that plagues it, began as a father witnessing his teenage son’s relationship with tech.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Government inefficiency still plagues the country, and it has the worst pollution on the planet.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

Medieval plagues had manifested themselves in a similar way, in the form of many dead rats.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

But his life was plagued by bouts of acute depression which caused repeated admissions to psychiatric hospitals - where Oddie suffered from severe lithium poisoning as a result of his treatment.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Bean representative rather than deal with yet another AI assistant on a the website from a company whose parent company is plagued by data leaks.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Mineral-rich eastern DRC has been plagued by conflict for three decades.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Greenspan contended that a gold-backed monetary system would restrain government spending, prevent reckless money creation and largely eliminate the destructive boom-bust cycle that has plagued modern economies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He thought of the voice that plagued his nightmares.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Nigeria's president has approved the country's largest military expansion in recent times - an attempt to tackle the slew of security challenges plaguing the nation.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Public officials like the win-win: It addresses both their housing shortages and the overhang of empty office space plaguing downtowns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

There is no wall up, no layer of artifice between the musician and the actor plaguing modern biopics.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

He has devoted a surprising amount of time and energy into relaying the minute engineering problems plaguing this shallow pool on the National Mall.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

In addition to changing the bedsheets and helping Mrs. Caruthers to the bathroom, Ophie was also asked to fetch a newspaper so that the old woman could check the latest scandals plaguing the Harding administration.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland