blight
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"Yes, there are a small minority of people in the Grangetown area who blight those communities. But we will continue relentlessly to serve our communities."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
In recent years, residents have struggled with blight and property crime, according to Matson, who sits on Newberry Springs’ local government.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
It was triggered by potato blight which spread across Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“As long as the focus was on the noble good of liberty, the blight of slavery could be accepted or ignored, at least by some people, and at least for a time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Momma loved those stories, and when the paper would come we'd read them together, marveling over tales of a frontier untouched by the blight of the restless dead.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
I wish we could point to a new robust corner of Minnehaha and Lake Street where the condemned Third Precinct still blights the corner, but we can’t.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
To many, it’s ugly vandalism that blights the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
The price of chocolate has been rising as adverse weather and disease blights cocoa crops in West Africa.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024
Lashari, the city official, laments the “decay and disorder” that blights Gawalmandi and other traditional neighborhoods like it.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
I know that firsthand, having grown up without economic privilege and having worked in neighborhoods blighted by socioeconomic hardship.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
It is not the first time disruption has blighted Nats' control system.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Niger has been ruled for three years by a military junta that has struggled to contain jihadist violence, which has blighted the west African country for around a decade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Back pain is one of the UK's most common conditions that has blighted millions over generations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Outsiders already looked upon Philadelphia as a blighted area.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Slavery shaped the Americas for four centuries, blighting the entire hemisphere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
The "Need to Sell" programme would remain open to support residents "until the blighting effect of HS2 has fully receded", he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
Next time you feel like littering, think of the bird you may harm and the beauty you are blighting.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
This I had believed with all my being, but now, though still inwardly affirming that belief, I felt a blighting hurt which prevented me from trying further to defend myself.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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