pestilence

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We can expect economic upheaval, famine and pestilence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Every time she opens her mouth I swear a swarm of horseflies and pestilence are released to consume the countryside.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2025

We instinctively comfort ourselves: I will never set foot in a submersible, my life will never be uprooted by war or pestilence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2023

Tuberculosis has carried off many of their neighbors, and the pestilence has provoked a range of superstitious remedies among the villagers.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Beginning in 1616, the pestilence took at least three years to exhaust itself and killed as much as 90 percent of the people in coastal New England.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann