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Other states have similar plans to tackle a roadway scourge that the government says contributes to more than 10,000 deaths a year nationwide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Black lung, that scourge of coal miners, had been identified in the mid-19th century but its cause, the inhalation of coal dust, did not come under federal oversight until 1969.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

A co-ordinated international naval response together with private security on commercial ships successfully drove down the scourge and contained a flare-up in 2023 and 2024.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

“The Greatest Emperor, scourge of our enemies, commander of a host most devastating. And the Empire shall be made whole.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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

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

Malaria kills mostly babies and infants, and has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023

Yet many scientists say the platform is effective and may be nimble enough to be used against an array of scourges, from flu to types of cancer.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Ancient foragers, who had domesticated only dogs, were free of these scourges.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

Then he began to chant aloud: Burn, scourged world, Furious furnace, Inferno impure— He opened his eyes.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

“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

Part of her brilliance as a filmmaker lies in her mastery of the cinematic canons she subjects to thorough critical scourging.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019

He held the scourging tail in one claw, while gripped in the other was his war standard, topped by the ferret skull with the addition of the tattered tapestry square depicting Martin the Warrior.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques