canker

Smith and Hume did not agree on every economic proposition, but they independently condemned the canker of the public debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

There was citrus canker, a viral infection that had plagued citrus for years prior to the arrival of greening.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

As humans, we are nothing if not fascinated by our own bodies, whether that’s picking a scab, prodding a canker sore or popping a pimple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

“There is a canker that Miss Havisham has allowed, welcomed even, in her heartbreak and desire for revenge.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

But I threw up something so harshly acidic it left me with canker sores on the inside of my mouth.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

The blight precipitated an insidious acid in the American chestnut trees, and gnawed grievous cankers into their woody trunks.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

Discuss diseases and insect pests common to roses grown in the maritime Pacific Northwest, including black spot, rust, cercospora leaf spot, powdery mildew, crown gall, cankers, rose mosaic virus and more via Zoom 6:30-8:15 p.m.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

Fire blight, a bacterial disease that can cause weeping cankers on pear-tree trunks, generally responds to antibiotics, but the drugs can stop working if over-used.

From Nature ● Mar. 13, 2017

He was curled up in a ball in pain, with bloody diarrhoea, a fever, cankers in his mouth, a rash on his face and boils on his legs.

From BBC ● May 26, 2014

In 1904, a keeper at the Bronx Zoo in New York noticed that the zoo’s handsome chestnuts had become covered in small orange cankers of an unfamiliar type.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson