scourge
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Countries on Saturday elected Chile's COP climate summit chief negotiator to revive stalled talks on striking a landmark global treaty tackling the scourge of plastic pollution.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
The latest novel by Lionel Shriver, literary darling turned literary-world scourge, doesn’t come out until mid-February, and it’s already polarizing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
By 1529, she had died, possibly succumbing to smallpox, a European scourge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026
The growing scourge of food allergies drove U.K. heavyweight pharmaceutical GSK to announce a $2.2 billion deal on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026
Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing scourge
"Of Mice and Men"
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Beowulf
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