scourges 1 of 2

plural of scourge

scourges

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of scourge

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of scourges
Noun
Individualism, selfishness—these are scourges for your team’s success. Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 First each member, in turn, would prostrate himself while the others, marching in a circle, stepped over him and struck him with their scourges. Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 The vaccination schedule for infants and children has been updated throughout the years as new shots become available, offering better protection against childhood scourges. Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scourges
Noun
  • The results could help scientists plan future Mars missions by accounting for the troublesome dust that coats rover solar panels and whips across landing sites during descent, the researchers say.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • My focus was always trying to bring the kind of complexities of the kink world to the screen…trying to find the warmth in that community rather than be like Prince Albert, whips, chains, and gags.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Nevermore kids soon encounter their ideal nemeses in a troop of normie paramilitary Boy Scout types who’ve reserved the camp for the same days.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The last of the old curses and the purest championship drought in the sport.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Set for Vietnamese release in the fourth quarter of 2025, The Whispering Spirit is based on ancient myths about special days known as ‘Tam Nương’ that have curses placed on them.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As extreme heat ravages New York City this summer, the lives of thousands detained on Rikers Island hang in the balance.
    Darren Mack, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Target’s sale has discounts on thousands of storage furniture pieces, like this soft and roomy fleece bench with a lift-top and this cabinet that discreetly hides and deodorizes trash cans.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The haziness of the energy balance hides this brief imbalance, which allows the virtual particles to influence the real world.
    Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So there's going to be people, vigilantes, superheroes that are involved in that.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Armed with clubs and pistols, vigilantes went door to door, herding more than three hundred men, women, and children through the streets and out of town.
    Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Davis and Lively each are dangerous lob threats.
    Christian Clark, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The mother of Jacob De La Rosa, a 15-year-old Polytechnic High School student who was stabbed near the campus Friday afternoon, believes that her son’s death stemmed from threats that were made to Jacob’s older brothers.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These newly aware companies’ high-speed trading of financial projects destroys the Earth itself, forcing humans to flee to the margins of the solar system.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the time, a person’s immune system identifies and destroys these cells.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Scourges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scourges. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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