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

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

"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

Cunningham proclaims herself as a warrior for “common sense” by fighting off a scourge that no one can see.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Sophie’s father, Robert Scholl, was arrested after an employee overheard him call Hitler “a great scourge of God.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

"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

A better social safety net to end this and other scourges of poverty is in order.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Though we might assume Elmo is unencumbered by society’s scourges in the same way we are, it’s worth reminding ourselves that he’s partly assuming some of that baggage for us.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera, and plague that once swept nations before them.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

Nine major fires have scourged the Paradise area in the last century, including two back-to-back blazes that reached the edge of town in the summer of 2008.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2018

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

That has left innovation, with the exception of a few one-person shows, largely to small theaters in rural areas where the pandemic has been less scourging.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

They involved doing penance for a sin not yet committed, intense and fervent penance accompanied by scourging and flagellation, so as to build up, as it were, a store of credit.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman