scourge

“Now, for a lot of people, the franchise is the scourge of baseball,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Cunningham proclaims herself as a warrior for “common sense” by fighting off a scourge that no one can see.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

One country has managed to hold firm against this scourge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Speaking at a crisis meeting, France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu warned of "a tragic scourge of drownings", saying 40 mostly young people had drowned since June 18.

From Barron's ● Jun. 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

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

And many shots protect not just the individuals receiving them but also the broader community by making it harder for deadly scourges to spread.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025

Malaria kills mostly babies and infants, and has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023

Yet many scientists say the platform is effective and may be nimble enough to be used against an array of scourges, from flu to types of cancer.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, now cluster against the busy breast of the big town.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

Nine major fires have scourged the Paradise area in the last century, including two back-to-back blazes that reached the edge of town in the summer of 2008.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2018

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

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

When Fo won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1997, the Nobel Committee praised him for “emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

He had clearly never heard the scourging din of Scentless Apprentice, on which Cobain’s agonised screaming of the seemingly innocuous phrase offers a deeply disturbing insight into the singer’s post-fame state of mind.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2019

In awarding the Nobel to Mr. Fo, the Swedish Academy noted that he “emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2016

They involved doing penance for a sin not yet committed, intense and fervent penance accompanied by scourging and flagellation, so as to build up, as it were, a store of credit.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman