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Recent Examples of blighted
Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 26 Aug. 2025
Beyond finances, gaining community support is key in successful adaptive reuse projects, since developers often face skepticism when proposing to revitalize blighted properties.
—Dr. Dick Bridy, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Reliable energy is essential to deliver massive housing development on Staten Island’s North Shore, remake the blighted industrial Willets Point area, and transform the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
—Linda Baran, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025
Next door to the blighted property sits another home, which the city restored with plexiglass using the Proposal N plan.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
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Adjective
And then a lot of the speculators bought up hoards of blighted property or vacant property, and many of them are still holding onto it now.
—Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 26 Aug. 2025
Beyond finances, gaining community support is key in successful adaptive reuse projects, since developers often face skepticism when proposing to revitalize blighted properties.
—Dr. Dick Bridy, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Reliable energy is essential to deliver massive housing development on Staten Island’s North Shore, remake the blighted industrial Willets Point area, and transform the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
—Linda Baran, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025
Next door to the blighted property sits another home, which the city restored with plexiglass using the Proposal N plan.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blighted
Adjective
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Unfortunately, the sulfur compounds in garlic may interfere with nitrogen fixation in legumes and cause these plants to grow more slowly and become stunted.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Oct. 2025
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If your shrubs have distorted, yellowing, or curling leaves or their growth seems stunted, take a close look.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Prune lightly for shaping and to remove any dead or damaged branches.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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Health problems caused by ozone may include coughing, difficulty breathing, and inflamed and damaged airways, according to the agency.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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All the problems getting into the ground ruined the trip a bit.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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In 1950s Washington, the moral entrepreneurs were members of Congress and expert witnesses who labeled people Soviet collaborators and ruined many of their lives.—
Ron Barrett,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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To determine whether a branch is dead or just dormant, scrape some of the bark away.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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Once the bulb has gone dormant and all the foliage has died down, carefully dig the bulb or tuber out of the ground.—
Erica Browne Grivas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Additionally, the ball itself will become significantly misshapen to the point that using one of the recharging methods below can’t reverse it.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Oct. 2025
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That change of course also makes the episode feel a bit misshapen.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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But 24 of the 30 were impaired by pollution – primarily nitrogen – at the time of this designation, and today, their condition has not improved.—
Christopher F. Meindl,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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Jackson was not impaired and speed was not factor, police said.—
Jeff A. Chamer,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Since Buzzard's Roost opened in 2023, the staff has experienced unexplained broken glasses, books falling off the shelf and many elevator and electronic glitches.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Wednesday night attack at the apartment in the 2800 block of Corabel Lane began as an argument between the husband and wife over a broken personal computer tablet, officials said.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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He was arrested in November 1957 after the body of local hardware store owner and shopkeeper Bernice Worden, 58, was found hanging from hooks and mutilated in his shed.—
JR Radcliffe,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Authorities discovered Worden’s body — decapitated, mutilated and hung upside down like a deer in the barn — but that was just the beginning.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Blighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blighted. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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