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blighted

[blahy-tid] / ˈblaɪ tɪd /






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Raducanu has been blighted by illness and injuries in recent years and has only gone beyond the third round of a major once since her US Open win in 2021.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

In this blended, blighted family, fear has a different hold on Niall, played as an adolescent by Mitchell Robertson.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

For thousands of young fans, who swarmed the band’s outlaw concerts under blighted freeways during the pandemic, Dead City are a cathartic social phenomenon that’s reignited a riotous punk rock subculture in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

But insecurity has blighted much of rural Nigeria.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

And in the effort of it all, she had stunted herself, blighted herself, whittled herself to a bone of a thing.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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