blight
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Fly-tipping incidents continue to blight areas right across Wales, with figures released earlier this year the highest since 2009.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
NCST, a nonprofit that aims to boost affordable housing and fight neighborhood blight, praised provisions related to preservation and rehabilitation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
The pandemic was and is a blight on compassion.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026
The $300 million Neighborhood Transformation Initiative cleared blight but failed to spur broad reinvestment in targeted areas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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