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Recent Examples of blighted
Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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
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Adjective
With their glory days long gone, Gary Emerson and Horace Mann high schools represent blighted eyesores that conjure up nostalgia and grim realities.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blighted
Adjective
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But a pair of Beck interceptions in between those scoring drives stunted Miami’s chance to get closer.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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Infected plants will be stunted.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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After the shaking stops, expect aftershocks and avoid damaged buildings.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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Surgeons operated on the boy, removing the magnets and damaged sections of his intestines.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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No, baseball was not yet ruined.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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There is even Depardieu’s own late son, Guillaume, whose death at age thirty-seven was hastened along by heroin use that had ruined his health, and over whom Ferrara recalls Depardieu shedding copious tears during one of their early meetings.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The latent varicella zoster virus lies dormant in the body after a person has chicken pox.—
Amy McGorry,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Planting Too Late The best time to plant fruit trees is in spring or fall, when the trees are dormant and the weather is still mild.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Lately, Parker has also embraced the wabi-sabi ideal—that there is glory in irregularity, in something being vaguely misshapen.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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No franchise in Disney’s deep corporate Rolodex is more odd and misshapen than Tron.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In April, the former Minnesota Vikings running back was booked on a charge of driving while impaired after police pulled him over in Minnesota for speeding, the Associated Press reported.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Their heart rates were higher, and their insulin function was impaired the following morning.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Additionally, nearly nine in 10 singles said being handy is attractive and think leaving small DIY projects dangling or broken fixtures untreated is a turnoff.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Oct. 2025
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Attempts are already underway to deny accountability and reassert the same broken playbook of impunity.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Four of the murdered were mutilated.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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The killer targeted and gunned down couples parked in secluded spots on the city’s outskirts, and in several cases, the bodies of female victims were discovered to be mutilated.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Blighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blighted. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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