scourge

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Arooj Shah, Chair of the LGA's Neighbourhoods Committee, said: "Councils want to work with government to tackle the scourge of fly-tipping and protect our communities from environmental crime."

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

It’s both a possibly sophisticated performance enhancer and the scourge of picky eaters, brand new to elite endurance athletes, but all too familiar to generations of intransigent five-year-olds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

By 1529, she had died, possibly succumbing to smallpox, a European scourge.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

They worried it could turn into deflation, a major scourge of the economy during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026

He began by making readers face the terrible illness: “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