plagues

This disinformation campaign "plagues social media with fake posts, counterfeit documents and deepfake material", says the Foreign Office.

On top of improving my sleep, it has reduced that static low-level anxiety that always plagues me in the fall.

“This is an issue that plagues society that shows no sign of being fixed.”

Moving between ages seems to be linked to crises - like barbarian invasions, civil wars and plagues - though exactly how this will work is unclear.

The migratory locust Locusta migratoria is an economically important crop pest that is said to have come to Egypt in the Old Testament as the eighth of the ten biblical plagues, "to devour all that plants that grow."