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- the museum display included a scourge, thumbscrews, and other notorious instruments of torture
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- the attorney general, who just happens to be a candidate for governor, is a self-proclaimed scourge of organized crime
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- the sheer ubiquity of food is proving to be the scourge of humanity, as evidenced by the obesity epidemic
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- barbarians scourged the countryside, leaving village after village burned to the ground
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- scourge the tree with a whip to loosen the bark
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