scourge

More than 400,000 Americans died in the fighting to end the scourge of Nazi Germany and its allies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Now, for a lot of people, the franchise is the scourge of baseball,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Nicaragua invokes Germany's responsibility in connection to multiple violations of international law, particularly in respect of the odious scourge of genocide and international humanitarian law," ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez told the court.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

If you ever had the chance to talk to World War II veterans, you know they believed they were fighting for “freedom” against the scourge of fascism.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

"The scourges of terrorism and antisemitism are shared, international challenges and need concerted and determined action to defeat them," it added.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

Yet these scourges aren’t unique to Mexico, the author points out—they exist around the world, even in “the countries that pride themselves on being the democracies par excellence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

But I believe the answer to those scourges can be found not in an advocate’s crusading righteousness, but in a journalist’s humbler mission: to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

With limited resources, governments have long seen no other option but to team with Big Pharma to develop vaccines for global scourges.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023

“Says ‘positively kills lice, roaches and other scourges.’

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

He then revealed his "scourged back" as proof.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

Pope Francis, in 2013, said the shroud is an “icon of a man scourged and crucified.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

The subject, from St. John’s Gospel, shows Pontius Pilate presenting the scourged and mocked Christ to the crowd.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

Diane Offutt, eyes squeezed shut, nodded amen, as did the girlfriend, while Kovler portrayed their man as industrious and responsible, not someone fitting the profile of a shooter in a metropolis scourged by hair-trigger mayhem.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2019

Their bulging eyes seemed to rebuke her stares, but what were the attentions of one girl, disturbing their rest, compared to how the world had scourged them since the day they were brought into it?

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

“The wildfires scourging Los Angeles these last few weeks have been a devastating humanitarian and natural disaster,” Sharpton said in a prepared statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

In 1869, the British critic Matthew Arnold observed that Protestant Americans had internalized Hebraism’s scourging demands for “conduct and obedience” and “strictness of conscience”:

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

Tygart, who has never been especially lenient, has begun to protest vehemently against WADA’s public scourging of athletes as drug cheats over a single low-level test.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021

Of the scourging pressure of his need to understand.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

The older boys went back to eating, disappointed by the lack of a public scourging, but the baby, Jim Bowie, said, “Hi, Callie. I missed you. Where have you been?”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly