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“The thing that I got right, that I loved for the longest time and now has almost become the bane of my existence, is creating relatable comics,” he told us.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The arrangement was aimed at minimizing the number and cost of change orders, which are the bane of construction projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans’ 84-year-old former party leader and long-time bane of Democrats’ existence, checked into a hospital last month and has hardly been heard from since.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

Now he could well become L.A.’s first homeless mayor—fittingly, in a city where homelessness is the greatest civic obsession as well as the greatest civic bane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

“Preventative measures are the bane of spontaneous action,” he said.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Tuesday seemed one of our more humid days, and the twin banes of heat and humidity joined to provide the triple-digit experience.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2021

Though she clearly champions her subjects, Brewer doesn’t pull any punches about why the festival fell apart after seven years, thanks to those classic banes of arts nonprofits, volunteer burnout and the failure to professionalize.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2020

But we know that paperwork was one of the banes of the housing crisis.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2016

One of the banes of commercial existence has been that Internet domain names can be registered by anyone, in a flash.

From Forbes ● Jan. 23, 2015

Whether by the banes of the sea, banes of the farm, or banes of the woods.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer