pestilence
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The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
The likelihood of dying from the Great Pestilence was highest amongst those who already faced significant hardship, including exposure to famines that hit England during this time.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2023
Called “The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City,” it showed how strides in public health eventually quelled the epidemics of the 19th century.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
Week 1395, a ‘plus-one’ to something known by a number The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Death, Pestilence, and Zeppo.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021
The Party shall continue unabated, in full festival Mode, for some few weeks thereafter, or until the belittled Pestilence has run its course through the Assembled.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing pestilence
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
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