plague
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Addictive sites clearly can plague working adults, too.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The central region, one of the country's key centres of agricultural production, has already sustained major livestock losses over the past three years owing to floods and sheep plague.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
But her third feature raises those stakes, envisioning an entire society imperiled by plague, the death toll climbing and panic spreading.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
A Department for Transport spokesman said the report "rightly highlights the need to improve our roads" and pointed out that the government has raised the funding level to help councils "fix the pothole plague".
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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