blight
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Philip Duffy, the EA's chief executive, said waste crime was a "serious blight" on both local communities and the environment.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
So if everyone hates the light blight, why do cities keep installing it?
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Mary’s presence is a malignancy, a blight on the name that Sam has worked so hard to build, an identity that’s separate from Mary’s and secure in its solitude.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
Now frozen by British sanctions, the properties have fallen into disrepair, the overgrown lots a blight on an upscale street lined with manicured gardens and iron gates.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Instead of a chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight—something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests?
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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