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Recent Examples of blighted
Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2024
The big picture: The solar program is an effort by the city to clean up blighted areas and offset municipal greenhouse gas emissions.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 24 July 2024
In recent years, Giles has overseen the controversial development of the blighted downtown Site 17, the demolition of Fiesta Mall and the arrival of high-tech industries to east Mesa, including Virgin Galactic's spaceship assembly plant.
—Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
Transformational Brownfields, designed to spur redevelopment of blighted or obsolete building sites.
—Leah Olajide, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2024
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The Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission Wednesday approved a hotel and entertainment development that will transform the blighted corner at Pennsylvania and Georgia Streets across from Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
—Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2024
The big picture: The solar program is an effort by the city to clean up blighted areas and offset municipal greenhouse gas emissions.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 24 July 2024
In recent years, Giles has overseen the controversial development of the blighted downtown Site 17, the demolition of Fiesta Mall and the arrival of high-tech industries to east Mesa, including Virgin Galactic's spaceship assembly plant.
—Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
Transformational Brownfields, designed to spur redevelopment of blighted or obsolete building sites.
—Leah Olajide, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blighted
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The case was dormant until last year, when agents with Wisconsin's Justice Department began working with the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory to identify the remains.Doha Madani, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Most went dormant in August and September, then the rain from the remnants of Hurricane Helene made their way up here.Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 2 Nov. 2024
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Congenital anomalies can include the following, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Heart defects, like missing or misshapen valves.Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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In a tank of comb jellies in the lab, the team one day noticed a particularly big and misshapen individual.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
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Rescue crews are hindered by cell service outages and ruined roads and bridges as federal officials warn money to help people get back on their feet is tenuous with 57 days still left in the official hurricane season.Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
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Instead of basking at the park's desert ecosystem, visitors left graffiti and ruined trails.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Without breaking stride, Hunter blew past four more Utah defenders and hopped into the end zone, a broken play transformed into a work of art.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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De Menezes was on his way to repair a broken fire alarm when he was shot and killed in an underground carriage at Stockwell station.Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
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Until the world contains only liberal democracies, Washington can hardly avoid seeking blemished friends.Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
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Throop returned to his hometown in 1990 to take stock of its blemished environment.Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
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His clean image was marred by scandal in the late 1980s when Garvey divorced his wife, got two other women pregnant, then married a fourth woman, his current wife.Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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His victory was celebrated not only as a win for the democratic process in a region marred by a series of recent military coups, but also as the ushering-in of a new and younger political generation in Senegal, where the median age is just 19.Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
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This psychological thriller maps out a world of malformed desire and ingestive paranoia without the need for gutsy special effects.Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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The tall clay-like skin creature looks like a candle melting in human form, without eyes, and with malformed hands that resemble a fetus’ in a sonogram.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
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Somebody with impaired vision, conducting a fingertip search, might gather as much as—or more than—a viewer with perfect sight who merely looks.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Children, older adults, and people with impaired immune systems are at higher risk for health problems from breathing in toxins from mold exposure.Sarah Hudgens, Health, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Blighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blighted. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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