plague
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In this tale, a 9-year-old girl named Ildr, who has recently lost her mother to a plague, encounters a stranger bearing extraordinary inventions such as eyeglasses and a firearm.
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
It was as if we had been forced together by some overwhelming circumstance, like war or plague, and shared a world of our own.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
How many malodorously toxic episodes does that make toward the seven plagues in the Old Testament?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
Government inefficiency still plagues the country, and it has the worst pollution on the planet.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
For many people, locust swarms evoke images of ancient plagues, but the danger is very real today.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
“Lexie, why don’t you give it a bit more thought. Maybe next time we meet, you’ll have identified a negative thought that plagues you.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
The DRC's 17th Ebola outbreak was declared on May 15 after several deaths in Ituri, a mineral-rich province plagued by armed groups.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Now fully healthy after knee injuries plagued his rookie season, Thiero’s versatility in summer league could potentially translate to regular-season minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
As I said, some of the blame should be heaped on the overly centralized Inka command structure, a problem that has plagued armies throughout time.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
The weakness is partly being driven by the continued downturn plaguing Asian tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 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
It was he who detected my plaguing hunger and suggested to me a way to earn some money.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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