blight
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He believes these will help “reverse the blight of social disintegration” and provide “freedom from the state as well as the market.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Multiple factors caused the famine, including the potato blight that destroyed the main source of food, and the political and socioeconomic circumstances of British colonial rule.
From BBC • May 22, 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
Times story from 1997 that was titled: “On the blight side.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
But I am particularly interested in the school business, because it seems to me that the blight can disappear only when there are millions of Coopers.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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