scourge

“Now, for a lot of people, the franchise is the scourge of baseball,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Nicaragua invokes Germany's responsibility in connection to multiple violations of international law, particularly in respect of the odious scourge of genocide and international humanitarian law," ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez told the court.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

If you ever had the chance to talk to World War II veterans, you know they believed they were fighting for “freedom” against the scourge of fascism.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

One country has managed to hold firm against this scourge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

He began by making readers face the terrible illness: “About this time, this destroying scourge, the malignant fever, crept in among us.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

"The scourges of terrorism and antisemitism are shared, international challenges and need concerted and determined action to defeat them," it added.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

Yet these scourges aren’t unique to Mexico, the author points out—they exist around the world, even in “the countries that pride themselves on being the democracies par excellence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

But I believe the answer to those scourges can be found not in an advocate’s crusading righteousness, but in a journalist’s humbler mission: to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Extreme weather disasters became more common, bringing with them the scourges of disease and famine.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024

People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, now cluster against the busy breast of the big town.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Pope Francis, in 2013, said the shroud is an “icon of a man scourged and crucified.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

The subject, from St. John’s Gospel, shows Pontius Pilate presenting the scourged and mocked Christ to the crowd.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

Diane Offutt, eyes squeezed shut, nodded amen, as did the girlfriend, while Kovler portrayed their man as industrious and responsible, not someone fitting the profile of a shooter in a metropolis scourged by hair-trigger mayhem.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2019

Nine major fires have scourged the Paradise area in the last century, including two back-to-back blazes that reached the edge of town in the summer of 2008.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2018

Then he began to chant aloud: Burn, scourged world, Furious furnace, Inferno impure— He opened his eyes.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

“The wildfires scourging Los Angeles these last few weeks have been a devastating humanitarian and natural disaster,” Sharpton said in a prepared statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

In 1869, the British critic Matthew Arnold observed that Protestant Americans had internalized Hebraism’s scourging demands for “conduct and obedience” and “strictness of conscience”:

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

Of the scourging pressure of his need to understand.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

Johnson gave a jovial answer about politicians who lie, saying “they should be made to go on their knees through the chamber of the House of Commons scourging themselves with copies of their offending documents”.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2019

“I passed through a terrible scourging when last at my father’s,” Stanton wrote in a letter to Anthony several months after the speech.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling