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pestilence

[pes-tl-uhns] / ˈpɛs tl əns /


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Without them, we’d live in a world of putridity and pestilence.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Invasive species came in all guises: foreign pestilence, foreign capital, and the developers.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon Jan. 23, 2026

In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 2024

He threw out a wave of pestilence and decay.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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