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The discrepancy echoes the oil market’s familiar bane of “missing barrels”—volumes that show up in one set of figures but can’t readily be accounted for elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

In this real-estate market, one man’s bane can be another man’s boon.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

I make a lot of phone calls for stories, and meticulously transcribing those interviews has been the bane of my existence since I was in high school.

From Slate ● May 24, 2026

“They’re the bane of my existence,” I say, referring to the freckles.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Summertime in Washington means not only heat and humidity, but includes the seemingly ever present possibility that those two seasonal banes can combine in creating thunder, lightning and a rapid rise in creeks.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

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

It can be imagined how Greece rang with the praises of the young man who had cleared the land of these banes to travelers.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton