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the plague

Adverb

Meaning

the plague (not comparable)

(dated) Synonym of the hell (“expletive”)

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

In "The Plague of Doves," a Minnesota Book Award-winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. Source: Internet

A professional footballer appears as a character in The Plague and football is discussed in the dialogue. Source: Internet

In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and also received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Source: Internet

The plague was caused by the same bacteria at the Black Death, Yersinia pestis, which is usually transmitted through the bite of an infected rat flea. Source: Internet

The living conditions are deplorable, human rights for the miners are few, and a disease called "The Plague" is running rampant throughout the colony with no known antidote available—predominantly within the confines of the mine complex. Source: Internet

Žižek, Slavoj, The Plague of Fantasies (London: Verso 1997), p. 39. Lacan also distinguishes between desire and the drives: desire is one and drives are many. Source: Internet

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