bane

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Recent Examples of bane Wolfsbane is part of a larger suite of banes; compounds and derivatives include ratsbane, fleabane, and cow-bane, each name signaling a different poison. Laura Murphy, JSTOR Daily, 28 Feb. 2025 Charging my Apple Watch every day is the bane of my existence, and despite years of efforts to improve it, the closest that Apple has come is to launch … fast charging? Adrienne So, Wired News, 24 Apr. 2025 My stomach had always been the bane of my body image struggles, and that loathing didn’t magically disappear as my uterus expanded to accommodate an undeniably miraculous addition. Michelle Konstantinovsky, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025 Light pollution is the bane of a stargazer’s existence. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bane
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Noun
  • Because perhaps heartbreak is not only a curse, but also a language.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • His thought that autism is a curse that destroys families IS the tragedy.
    Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Some agents were hospitalized due to possible exposure from the poison, according to Brown.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 20 June 2025
  • Apex scavengers may also accidentally consume toxic substances, such as poison intended for predators threatening livestock, or veterinary drugs found in livestock carcasses.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Newsom and Trump are long time nemeses whose latest public dispute centered around Trump circumventing Newsom to send military troops to California to monitor protests against Trump’s deportation policies.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • The third book in the Arcana Oracle series finds heroine Pamela kidnapped by a mysterious force who reports to her nemesis, Aleister.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • After Yang was found, Police thanked those who assisted in the search for the missing man, who also has Parkinson’s disease.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • Do control the Asian psyllid insects with an insecticide spray at each flush of growth to prevent the spread of greening disease.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Just last week, for example, the Trump administration, through its Environmental Protection Agency, proposed to withdraw two rules imposing air toxics and greenhouse gas limits on fossil-fuel power plants.
    Wayne Messam, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2025
  • While the researchers behind this breakthrough may consider their product non toxic, its worth noting that the people who discovered the forever chemicals thought the same thing.
    Alison Escalante, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025

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“Bane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bane. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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