pestilence
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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
Every time she opens her mouth I swear a swarm of horseflies and pestilence are released to consume the countryside.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2025
From the Middle Ages on, Paris’ early underground waste channels were a wellspring of public fascination — and a source of pestilence, criminality and existential dread.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024
There was word that the pestilence crawled towards the city from the north shore, and that soon, in the alleys, we should be dying of it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing pestilence
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Twelfth Night
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