plague
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Sisilla’s mission is to investigate a metallic world of exiled plague victims gone incommunicado.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Although plague was present, the researchers say it does not fully explain what happened.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
The directors suggest Black Rock City has been visited upon by a plague of plutocrats and anarchists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
And the biggest plague, the one that never seems to go away, is deep-seated resentment for, often outright hostility to, mothers and the work of parenting.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Grabbing Kasusu, she jumped to her feet, glaring at the plague god.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
It’s at once a practical and existential question that plagues the two lead chefs in FX’s “The Bear.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
We’ve had plagues and climate change before, to some degree, but until the Manhattan Project, humans weren’t really in control of that kind of existential, destructive power.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Government inefficiency still plagues the country, and it has the worst pollution on the planet.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
For many people, locust swarms evoke images of ancient plagues, but the danger is very real today.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
Her grandfather droned on and on about the plagues and the exodus from Egypt.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
Mineral-rich eastern DRC has been plagued by conflict for three decades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Wildfires have also plagued France over the summer months.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Most of Aviv’s characters wander through life uneasily, plagued by misdiagnosed, undiagnosable or undertreated maladies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
That means small-cap indexes might be subject to the same shifts in AI sentiment that have plagued larger tech companies in recent weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Wandering the streets, plagued with guilt for what they’ve done?
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
There is no wall up, no layer of artifice between the musician and the actor plaguing modern biopics.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
The weakness is partly being driven by the continued downturn plaguing Asian tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
With that comes the threat of real danger, given the dramatic rise in elbow injuries currently plaguing the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
He has devoted a surprising amount of time and energy into relaying the minute engineering problems plaguing this shallow pool on the National Mall.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
In addition to changing the bedsheets and helping Mrs. Caruthers to the bathroom, Ophie was also asked to fetch a newspaper so that the old woman could check the latest scandals plaguing the Harding administration.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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