scourge

If you ever had the chance to talk to World War II veterans, you know they believed they were fighting for “freedom” against the scourge of fascism.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

El-Sayed subsequently distanced himself, issuing a statement Monday calling anti-Semitism a "scourge."

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

One country has managed to hold firm against this scourge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

For Airbnb, the short term rental platform, these parties are not exactly a fun time: They are a scourge of noise complaints, injury risks and property damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

About this time, this destroying scourge, the malignant fever, crept in among us.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

"The scourges of terrorism and antisemitism are shared, international challenges and need concerted and determined action to defeat them," it added.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

Yet these scourges aren’t unique to Mexico, the author points out—they exist around the world, even in “the countries that pride themselves on being the democracies par excellence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

But I believe the answer to those scourges can be found not in an advocate’s crusading righteousness, but in a journalist’s humbler mission: to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

With limited resources, governments have long seen no other option but to team with Big Pharma to develop vaccines for global scourges.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera, and plague that once swept nations before them.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

He then revealed his "scourged back" as proof.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

Pope Francis, in 2013, said the shroud is an “icon of a man scourged and crucified.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

The subject, from St. John’s Gospel, shows Pontius Pilate presenting the scourged and mocked Christ to the crowd.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

Diane Offutt, eyes squeezed shut, nodded amen, as did the girlfriend, while Kovler portrayed their man as industrious and responsible, not someone fitting the profile of a shooter in a metropolis scourged by hair-trigger mayhem.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2019

Their bulging eyes seemed to rebuke her stares, but what were the attentions of one girl, disturbing their rest, compared to how the world had scourged them since the day they were brought into it?

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

“The wildfires scourging Los Angeles these last few weeks have been a devastating humanitarian and natural disaster,” Sharpton said in a prepared statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

In 1869, the British critic Matthew Arnold observed that Protestant Americans had internalized Hebraism’s scourging demands for “conduct and obedience” and “strictness of conscience”:

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

Tygart, who has never been especially lenient, has begun to protest vehemently against WADA’s public scourging of athletes as drug cheats over a single low-level test.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021

Steering away from consolation, and bowing to the inevitability of continuing bloodshed, Sorley concludes with his favourite metaphor of the scourging elements: "… the storm, / The darkness and the thunder and the rain".

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2012

“I passed through a terrible scourging when last at my father’s,” Stanton wrote in a letter to Anthony several months after the speech.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling