pestilence

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We can expect economic upheaval, famine and pestilence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 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

His study came on the heels of another one published last November, which found that nearly a third of southern Sierra forests were killed by wildfires, drought and pestilence over the last decade.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

When that happened, the gods could bring death and devastation through floods and pestilence.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Beginning in 1616, the pestilence took at least three years to exhaust itself and killed as much as 90 percent of the people in coastal New England.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann