scourge

For Airbnb, the short term rental platform, these parties are not exactly a fun time: They are a scourge of noise complaints, injury risks and property damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

This isn’t the first time Kavanaugh has written about the scourge of racism in jury selection.

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

"Plastic pollution has reached alarming levels," said Vincent Kunda, head of Kongo River, an NGO which raises awareness of the scourge.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The New York Police Department is making progress on tackling the scourge of retail theft that has hit businesses across the city—and the nation—in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

The resounding success of the Curagao experiment whetted the appetites of Florida livestock raisers for a similar feat that would relieve them of the scourge of screw-worms.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

With limited resources, governments have long seen no other option but to team with Big Pharma to develop vaccines for global scourges.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023

Malaria kills mostly babies and infants, and has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023

Ancient foragers, who had domesticated only dogs, were free of these scourges.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

Their bulging eyes seemed to rebuke her stares, but what were the attentions of one girl, disturbing their rest, compared to how the world had scourged them since the day they were brought into it?

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

“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

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

Part of her brilliance as a filmmaker lies in her mastery of the cinematic canons she subjects to thorough critical scourging.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019

He held the scourging tail in one claw, while gripped in the other was his war standard, topped by the ferret skull with the addition of the tattered tapestry square depicting Martin the Warrior.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques