Stacey Abrams

While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.

American Politician

Kellyanne Conway

African Americans are concerned about the scourge of abortion in their community, and respond to related facts and figures. Large majorities agree that every life should have a chance, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or circumstance.

American Businesswoman

Ross Douthat

I get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a hair shirt under my clothes while scourging myself. And, really, I'm not a rigorist by temperament.

American Author

Charles Lawrence

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.

British Politician

Frances Beinecke

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

American Activist

Steven Hatfill

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

American Scientist

Arthur Henderson

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Martin Luther

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

German Leader

Jeff Fortenberry

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.

Sushma Swaraj

It is necessary that we eliminate the scourge of terrorism in all its forms, without any discrimination, and end the ecosystem of its support.

Indian Politician

Used to describe serious, harmful situations or events, usually beyond human control.

Negative Context

Emphasizes the extreme negative impact of a situation, often more intense than synonyms.

Expressing Severity

Refers to a person causing widespread issues, more intense than 'annoyance' or 'nuisance'.

Personified Problems

Often used to dramatize the gravity of one's actions in a situation.

Dramatic Effect

Refers to a literal whip for punishment, historical context explains its metaphorical use.

Historical Punishment

The historical use as a whip can metaphorically extend to any form of strict discipline.

Metaphorical Extension

Expresses an action of causing suffering, often ongoing and with serious consequence.

Action of Suffering

Used to acknowledge and describe something difficult to deal with or overcome.

Harsh Reality

 And as the wildcats learned to tolerate the presence of humans and other cats during mealtime, we think that farmers likewise tolerated the cats in exchange for free pest control. The relationship was so beneficial that the cats migrated with Neolithic farmers from Anatolia into Europe and the Mediterranean. Vermin were a major scourge of the seven seas.

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 And mosquito-borne diseases kill millions of people every year. The scourge that is the mosquito isn't new. Mosquitoes have been around for over a hundred million years and over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own. There are actually thousands of species of mosquitos in the world, but they all share one insidious

The loathsome, lethal...

 and infected them with adenovirus, and you can see this little yellow barcode next to adenovirus. And, likewise, we infected them with parainfluenza-3 -- that's a paramyxovirus -- and you see a little barcode here. And then we did respiratory syncytial virus. That's the scourge of daycare centers everywhere --

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 just this afternoon she's in critical condition a hundred children died in unintentional shooting deaths in the year after Newtown that breaks down to two a week you may think that I have the solution to the scourge of gun violence

Gun violence as told by...

 your day special day well done very necessary to have these days of course because awareness is massively important for conservation and elephants have received well slightly less publicity since the scourge of rhino poaching has

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 This horrible scourge is halitosis, otherwise known as bad breath. But what causes it, and why is it so universally terrifying? Well, think of some of the worst odors you can imagine,

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 Diabetes mellitus has been a scourge of the developed world with an estimated 400,000,000 people worldwide suffering from this disease,

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 There is a scourge of bad flags -- and they must be stopped. That is the truth and that is the dare.

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 scourge of a paper wasp nest another is water

Scourge