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scourge

noun as in plague, torment

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Sentencing the 22-year-old, Judge Inman said it was another case of gang violence that had become a "scourge of the city".

From BBC

The concept behind Social Security is not simply to provide relief to the needy, but also to maintain America’s overall economic viability by providing a floor to the health scourge known as poverty.

From Salon

“Gun violence continues to be a devastating scourge in Los Angeles, and today my office has taken decisive action by filing five gun sentencing enhancements, one for each victim,” Dist.

Local communities have called on the government to tackle the scourge and help them deal with drug users.

From BBC

On the scourge of social-media expectations, Adomian says in the special, “If you see crowd work tonight, that means something terrible has happened.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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