bane
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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
She was a stickler for analysis, whose intensive assignments were the bane of many classmates.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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
“The giants bane stands gold and pale, Won with pain from a woven jail.’
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
“I don’t want to stay here contemplating decisions while we give the banes of the Eloko enough time to pay us a visit.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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