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Recent Examples of blighted
George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
Also last year, the casino gave the city of Gary $3 million for the demolition of blighted structures.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Once overseen by a board of trustees, it has been owned since 2010 by the Jackson County Land Trust, a county-run corporation in charge of maintaining and ultimately selling hundreds of blighted properties.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
The fields are placed in mostly vacant and blighted areas.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
The blazes left behind a situation that prompted some observers to criticize the efforts of San Jose officials and political leaders to deal with blighted properties that haunt numerous locations in the city.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
Also last year, the casino gave the city of Gary $3 million for the demolition of blighted structures.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Once overseen by a board of trustees, it has been owned since 2010 by the Jackson County Land Trust, a county-run corporation in charge of maintaining and ultimately selling hundreds of blighted properties.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
The fields are placed in mostly vacant and blighted areas.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blighted
Adjective
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Similarly, a fractional COO could focus on scaling operations during a rapid growth phase and lay dormant during less operationally challenging times.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The real culprits, of course, are those bio-raptors who have a severe allergic reaction to light, and (much like certain species of cicada) have lain dormant for years on end.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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On the other hand, fruit trees that have been neglected have an overabundance of branches and produce fruit that is small, misshapen, and mediocre flavor.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2025
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Washing bras too often can affect the elastic and wires, leading to a misshapen bra.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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And then in Joker 2, some people complained that the movie was ruined by the images on the screen and the sounds that accompanied them.—
Lexy Perez,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
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Believing their beloved team already ruined mock drafting for the next two months, New York Giants fans probably hope for a loss against a Philadelphia Eagles team expected to rest starters Sunday.—
Jeff Howe,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This was true of Fury (2015) as well, his brutal and gruesome war drama featuring Brad Pitt as a tank commander in the final days of World War II leading a platoon of hardened, traumatized, broken soldiers.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
3 Apr. 2025
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This was mostly used when the group was building night nests—platforms made high in the trees out of broken branches, sometimes lined with leaves.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Expand the definition of rape to include circumstances when the offender knew that the other person's judgment was impaired because of drugs for medical treatment.—
Max Filby,
The Enquirer,
20 Dec. 2024
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Kenneth Stewart, 64, was arrested at the scene and charged with driving while ability impaired, Newsday reported.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Until the world contains only liberal democracies, Washington can hardly avoid seeking blemished friends.—
Hal Brands,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Feb. 2024
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Throop returned to his hometown in 1990 to take stock of its blemished environment.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2022
Verb
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But others argue these budget controls are ensuring Connecticut won’t return to the 2010s, a decade marred by frequent annual deficits and some of the largest tax hikes in state history.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2025
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The couple welcomed two children, True, 6, and Tatum, 2, but their romance was marred by Thompson's multiple cheating scandals.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Tonally, the story ends up halfway between malformed melodrama about inequity and a mystery steeped in respectability politics, wherein the point is how easily political allegiances (or assumptions about cops who shoot unarmed Black men) can blind one to greater complexities.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2025
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Some of the movie’s visual flaws — like the malformed CGI snow in its opening scene — can be easily forgiven as a fairytale-like flourishes when a younger, homeless Hornclaw (Shin Si-ah) is taken in by a kindly restaurant owner who also claims to work in pest control.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Blighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blighted. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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